Numerical design optimization methodology for wideband and multi-band inductively degenerated cascode CMOS low noise amplifiers

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1088-1101

  Nieuwoudt, Arthur ^a,b   Ragheb, Tamer ^a,c   Nejati, Hamid ^a   Massoud, Yehia ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b SYNOPSYS INC   (United States)

^c TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Circuit optimization; Low noise amplifier (LNA); Reconfigurable wireless circuits; Wideband wireless circuits

Indexed keywords

ANALOG CIRCUITS; BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; CASCODE AMPLIFIERS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN; NOISE FIGURE; OPTIMIZATION;

ANALYTICAL CIRCUIT MODELS; CIRCUIT OPTIMIZATION; CMOS LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; DESIGN SPACE EXPLORATION; NUMERICAL OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS; WIDEBAND WIRELESS; WIRELESS CIRCUIT;

LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 67650515482     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2008.2006208     Document Type: Article

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