Low-Voltage Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Wireless Sensor Networks

—This work presents a methodology for designing CMOS low-voltage low-power low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) based on the inductively degenerated common-source topology. To demonstrate the application of the proposed method, two LNAs operating at 900MHz and 2.4GHz are designed and simulated using a 90nm CMOS process. The 900MHz (2.4GHz) design has noise figure of less than 5.5dB (5dB) over the entire band of interest, a power gain of 12dB (13dB), input 1dB compression point of -20dBm (-18dBm), input-referred thirdorder intercept point of -10dBm (-9dBm), and consumes

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: CCECE
• Authors: Derek Ho, Shahriar Mirabbasi
• Keywords: 900MHz, CCECE 2006, Electrical And Computer Engineering, Low-power Low-noise Amplifiers, Thirdorder Intercept Point