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CS Path
Load Load Load Load
Vout
Vout M Vout
Vin Vout
-AV Vin M
M M
RS RS RS AF RS
-AV M
ACG
Load
CG Path
(a) (b) (c) (d)
Fig. 1. (a) Shunt-feedback LNA [6]; (b) Generic Gm-boost CG LNA [3]; (c) Simplified structure of noise cancellation LNA [8]; (d) The proposed LNA.
5
RL
RL
ACG
Vout
4
NF=NFM-NFT (dB)
Vin Vout ACS
M M
Vin 3
Matching
Network 2
(a) (b)
Fig. 2. (a) Simplified common-source (CS) amplifier; (b) Simplified 1
common-gate (CG) amplifier.
v A ,
achieving good noise performance, whose primary gain
CS 2
FCS 1 vCS
2
,n
2
S ,n V (2) amplifiers suffer from high NF.
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CG Path CG Path
VDD (1.8 V) VDD
VB3 R2 580 Ω gm4 R2 gm3
1.2 V RB
C3 1.3 pF
RB
51.2/0.18
Cgs4 rO1 Cgs3 rO3
M3
120/0.18 Vin
M4
CG Adder Vout
Cin 4.96 pF Zin gm1 gm2
Vout R1
Vin 19 pF C1 4.96 pF R1 233 Ω
C2 2 pF Cout RS Cgs1 rO1 Cgs2 rO2
VB4 1.1 V 38.4/0.18 10 pF
I1
M2
RB 140/0.18
M1 CS Path
40/0.18 RB
M5 RB Fig. 5. Equivalent small signal model of the proposed LNA.
CG 19 KΩ VB2
VB1 0.68 V
R3
0.63 V CG Path
323 Ω
CS Path : Channel Thermal Noise
Fig. 4. The schematic of the low noise amplifier, based on the noise R2
cancellation technique. (note: the unit of transistor size is μm). VB3
RB
III. DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF THE PROPOSED LNA B 0
M4 iM4 C Vout
A. Design of the Proposed LNA
CG Cout
1) CS Path: As shown in Fig. 4, the CS path is realized by a Vin Cin
two-stage CS amplifier. The first stage comprises a transistor A
ACS
M1 and a resistor R1. The second stage, consisting of M2 and M3, I1 CS Path
functions as the output stage. To drive 50-Ω load of RS
measurement equipment, the size of M3 has been so optimized
as to achieve nearly 20 mS gm3. The small signal model is
shown in Fig. 5. Ignoring the parasitic capacitors (Cgs, Cgd, etc.) Fig. 6. The principle of channel noise cancellation for M4.
of the transistors and assuming the input impedance (Zin) is 2
𝑖𝑀4 causes two instantaneous voltage responses, one each at
matched with RS, the CS path’s voltage gain is given by
nodes A and B, with opposite signs, as shown below:
1 g
AVCS gm1 R1 m 2 , (6) 1
2 g m3 vA, M 4 = iM 4 (Zin ‖ RS ) iM 4 , (9)
2 gm 4
gmi denotes the transconductance of transistor Mi.
vB , M 4 iM 4 1 g m 4 Rs 2 R2 . (10)
2) CG Path: As depicted in Fig. 4, the CG amplifier which The noise voltage at node A (vA,M4) is amplified by the CS path.
consists of M4, R2, and a dc current source I1 is adopted to At the output node C, the noise voltage transferred by vA,M4 is
design the CG path for achieving the input impedance matching. given by
The input impedance of the circuit is dominated mainly by the vAo , M 4 2 AVCS vA, M 4 iM 4 AVCS g m 4 . (11)
transconductance of M4 (gm4). Hence, gm4 of around 20 mS has
been chosen to match with RS. According to the small signal Considering the phase mismatch between the CG and CS
model shown in Fig. 5, the voltage gain of the CG path with the paths (∆𝜃), the output noise voltage transferred by vB,M4 is
adder is deduced thus: revised thus:
g R
1
AVCG g m 4 R2 . (7) vBo , M 4 vB , M 4 e j iM 4 1 m 4 s R2 e j . (12)
2 2
β is the signal transfer function from the gate of M3 to the source At the output node C, the total noise voltage generated by
of M3 and is given by M4 is calculated thus:
g (r ‖ r ) ACS g R
m3 O 2 O 3 , (8) vC , M 4 vAo , M 4 vBo , M 4 iM 4 [ V 1 m 4 s R2 e j ]. (13)
1 gm3 (rO 2 ‖ rO3 ) gm4 2
where rOi means the drain output impedance of transistor Mi. In To minimize the noise contribution of M4, the circuit needs to
fact, gm3 (rO 2 ‖ rO3 ) 1 for the used CMOS technology and β is be satisfied thus:
approximately equal to 1. gm 4 Rs 1 CS
1 2 R2 cos( ) g AV . (14)
Unlike the input matching networks associated with m4
inductors or transmission lines, the active devices generate lots As already mentioned, gm4 1 RS . Substituting (14) for (7),
of noise power. Therefore, a noise cancellation scheme is
the relationship between 𝐴𝐶𝑆 𝐶𝐺
𝑉 and 𝐴𝑉 for the optimal noise
2
implemented to reduce the noise of M4 (𝑖𝑀4 ) which is the cancelation is obtained by
foremost noise generator in the CG path. As illustrated in Fig. 6,
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i2R2
RT V2 R2
Mo2 ACG M3
Vout
i2M3 M4
Vout Vout
V2 MT2 Vout
2
i R1
MT1 V1 R1 i2S ACS
i2S
Mo1 RS M5
V1 M2
RS i2M5
M1
2
i M1 i2M2
R3
i2R3
Theoretical NF (dB)
5
signals and the noises of the two paths, as shown in Fig. 7. Type 50
M4 ()
Ⅰ adder has two shunt current branches with one common load, 4 40
while Type Ⅱ adder has one current branch. Therefore, Type 30
3
Ⅰ adder has more freedom to control the ratio of the voltage
20
gains between the two active paths by independently adjusting 2
10
the transconductances of MT1 and MT2. However, this entails
more power consumption. Since Type Ⅱ adder has fewer 1
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
0
devices, its noise performance in ordinary cases is better than ()
that of Type Ⅰ. In addition, the noise of MO2 can be degraded Fig. 9. Theoretical NF and 𝜂𝑀4 versus the phase mismatch (∆𝜃) between
by MO1 in Type Ⅱ[13]. Hence, Type Ⅱ has been chosen to the two paths (γ =2.5, α=0.8) [15].
realize the adder in this design. As depicted in Fig. 4, Type Ⅱ Substituting (17) into (5), the ideal overall noise factor (FT,I),
adder reuses the second stage of the CS amplifier. without considering the noise contribution of the CG path, can
With the adder, the CS and CG paths have been aggregated. be derived as thus:
Considering the phase mismatch between the two paths, the 3 1
FT , I FCS . (21)
overall voltage gain is revised as: 4 tan 2 4 tan 2
1 g
AVT AVCS AVCG ( ) g m1 R1 m 2 g m 4 R2 e j . (16) In (21), the improvement of the noise factor is mainly due to the
2 g m3 enhancement in the overall gain with the CG path. However,
To achieve optimally cancel the noise power of M4, the ratio of the noise power of M4 cannot be completely cancelled, because
𝐴𝐶𝑆 𝐶𝑆 of the phase mismatch. Besides, the devices, including R2, M5,
𝑉 and 𝐴𝑉 (φ) can be calculated thus:
and R3 in the CG amplifier, will also contribute some noise to
AVCG / AVCS 1 j tan( ). (17)
the whole circuit. According to Fig. 8 (b), the noise factor
B. Noise Figure with Phase Mismatch contributed by M4, M5, R2, and R3 can be obtained thus:
To inspect the NF, a simplified schematic with noise sources tan 2 / 1/ cos 2 1/ R2
FCG
has been built, as shown in Fig. 8. The expressions of MOS 4 tan 2 g m 4 RS 4 tan 2 g m2 4 RS
transistors’ and resistors’ thermal noises are given by [14], as 2
1 (22)
shown below:
2 g m2 5 ‖ R3 RS
2
4kT ( i / i ) gmi f , 1 g m5 m5
g
iMi (18) g m 5 RS .
1 g m5 R3 R3
iRi2 4kTRi1f , (19)
In this design, gm5 and R3 have been carefully optimized by
where γi is the coefficient of the channel thermal noise of Mi, αi SPECTRE simulation to minimize their noise contribution,
= gmi/gd0i, and gd0i is the zero-bias drain conductance of Mi. As which are about 10 mS and 323 Ω, respectively. Considering
shown in Fig. 8 (a), the noise factor of the CS path is derived as: the phase mismatch, the overall noise factor FT,F of the LNA
1/ R1 g m1 / g m 2 g m3 / can be calculated follows:
FCS 1 . (20)
g m2 1 RS g m2 1 g m2 2 R12 RS FT , F FT , I FCG . (23)
Thanks to the noise cancellation technique, the noise power of From (23) and Fig. 9, it can be seen that the overall NF (NF =
M4 is minimized at the output terminal, because of which the 10 𝑙𝑜𝑔10 𝐹𝑇,𝐹 ) increases with increase in ∆𝜃. To quantitatively
CG amplifier has low noise contribution to the overall NF.
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7.88%
21
4.15%
Oth
4.24% R3
ers
M
4.59% M 2 15
3
12
R2 M4
59.48% 9
19.66%
6
3
CG Path + Adder 0
0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5
(a) Frequency (GHz)
Fig. 11. Simulated phase mismatch (∆θ) between the CS and CG paths.
17.03%
Others
37.22%
7.1% 2
R1 M1 230 x 240 μm
Core
M4
450 μm
10.85%
R3 R2
11.3%
16.5%
Full Working
c
(b)
Fig. 10. The simulated noise contribution summary in the single CG path 585 μm
mode at 1.5 GHz (CG path with adder working); (b) simulated noise Fig. 12. Chip micrograph of the LNA.
contribution summary of the LNA in full working mode at 1.5 GHz.
mainly by ∆𝜃 (vide the analysis in Part B of Section Ⅲ). Three
investigate the influence of ∆𝜃 , the noise contribution
percentage of M4 (𝜂𝑀4 ) is defined thus: probable reasons can be cited to explain why the theoretical
value of 𝜂𝑀4 is less than the simulated one. The first reason is
tan 2 /
M 4
4 tan 2 g m 4 RS
F T ,F 1 . (24) that, in this design, the voltage gain ratio of the CS and CG
paths (φ) deviates a little from the normal. The second one is
According to Fig. 9, 𝜂𝑀4 is less than 10% when ∆𝜃 <17.5°, but that the noise analysis considers only the channel thermal noise,
it rapidly increases with further increase in ∆𝜃. Based on (24) ignoring other noises, like flicker noise, parasitic resistance
and Fig. 9, it can be generalized that the phase mismatch noises etc. The third one is the empirical values of γ and α,
between the two paths has serious effect on the implementation which are 2.5 and 0.8 [15]. These values may not be accurate
of noise cancellation. enough for the CMOS technology used. However, it may be
stated that, in general, the analysis of the phase mismatch
C. Noise Simulation and Verification reliably estimates the performance of noise cancellation LNAs.
To evaluate the performance of noise cancellation technique
in this design, the summary of the noise contributions of the IV. IMPLEMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT
devices has been obtained by post-layout simulation, which is The proposed inductorless wideband LNA has been designed
presented in Fig. 10. In the CG amplifier with the adder, M4 and fabricated following commercial 0.18-μm CMOS
contributes nearly 60% noise power at 1.5 GHz [see Fig. 10 (b)], technology. In this design, small inter-stage dc-isolation
which is about three times that of the second biggest noise capacitors have been used to obtain a compact chip size at the
contributor R2. After turning on the CS path (VB1=630 mV), the expense of the bandwidth and the gain. The two-stage CS path
percentage of M4’s noise contribution to the whole circuit has consumes 4.8 mA dc current under 1.8-V supply. The dc
decreased to 10.85% at 1.5 GHz, which is much smaller than current of the CG path is only 1.2 mA with the same supply
that of R2 [see Fig. 10 (b)]. Therefore, it can be inferred that the voltage. The chip micrograph is shown in Fig. 12. It occupies
noise cancellation technique cancels most of M4’s noise power. an area of 585 x 450 μm2, while the core of the circuit, with
Even so, M4 still contributes nearly 10.85% noise power to passive inter-stage capacitors, is only 230 x 240 μm2 in area.
the whole circuit. To verify whether the noise contribution of As shown in Fig. 12, the chip has been mounted on a printed
M4 is caused by the phase mismatch or not, ∆𝜃 has been circuit board (PCB). The S-parameters of the LNA have been
obtained by the post-layout simulation, whose outcome is measured using Agilent Vector Network Analyzer N5247A.
shown in Fig. 11. ∆𝜃 ranges from 2°to 15.5°at 0.1~2.5 GHz, The NF has been measured with Agilent Noise Figure Analyzer
whereas it is 14.3° at 1.5 GHz. According to Fig. 9, the N8975A and Agilent Noise Source 346C.
theoretical noise contribution of M4 (𝜂𝑀4 ) is about 6.8% when The measured two-port S parameters, shown in Fig. 13 (a),
∆𝜃 is 14.3°. It is close to the simulated value (10.85%). It can agree well with the simulation results. The measured maximum
therefore be inferred that the noise contribution of M4 is caused gain is 14.5 dB. A 3-dB gain bandwidth of 1.7 GHz from 100
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20 10
Simulated NF of the LNA
10 9 Measured NF of the LNA
Theoretical NF of the LNA
0 8 Measured CS-Path NF (VB4=0)
S Parameters (dB)
16 8
10 Sim. S11 without Bond wire 14
Sim. S21 without Bond wire 4
5 Sim. S22 without Bond wire 12 Output Power of the LNA
-10
neutralized by bond wires in application. As shown in Fig. 13
(b), the post-layout simulated S11 and S22 with the bond wires -20
are smaller than -10 dB in the whole 3-dB gain bandwidth. -30
IIP3=0.25 dBm
Fig. 14 shows the measured NF of the LNA, which varies -40
from 3.0 dB at 630 MHz to 3.8 dB at 1.8 GHz. Considering the -50 CG Path
simulated ∆𝜃 [see Fig. 11], the theoretical NF is calculated by -60 Full Working Fundamental
(23), and is found to be close to simulated NF [see Fig. 14]. The Full Working IMD3
-70
measured NF has increased by about 0.4 dB, as compared to the -30
-20 -15 -10 -25
-5 0 5
simulated one. This is possibly because of the deviation of Input Power (dBm)
Fig. 16. Measured third-order intercept points of LNA; the IIP3 of the
measurement and the lack of precise PDK noise model.
single CG path mode is -7.72 dBm.
According to Fig. 14, the measured NF in the full working
mode has decreased by about 1.2 dB, as compared to that of the The IIP3 of the proposed LNA has also been measured. The
single CS-path mode at 0.63 GHz (VB4=0). The NF of the CG two tone frequencies for the measurement are 1 GHz and 1.01
path has also been tested by turning off the CS path (VB1=0 V), GHz. As presented in Fig. 6, the IIP3 is 0.25 dBm. The IIP3 of
as shown in Fig. 14. Compared with the single CG-path mode, the single CG-path mode has been tested and is found to be
the measured NF of the full working mode also has decreased -7.72 dBm. It is much lower than that of the full working mode.
by about 2.5 dB in the operating frequency band. This indicates According to the measurement results shown in Figs. 15 &
that the noise power of M4 has been effectively eliminated by 16, both the overall IP1dB and IIP3 of the LNA are much better
the noise cancellation technique. They match with the than the ones obtained by turning off the CS path. Therefore, it
theoretical analysis results, presented Sections Ⅱand Ⅲ. can be inferred that the CG path has little influence to the
The IP1dB has been tested to examine the linearity of the LNA. overall linearity and it can be implemented with drawing low dc
As shown in Fig. 15, the IP1dB of -10.4 dBm has been achieved power consumption. Moreover, the high-order distortions in the
at 1 GHz. Compared with the single CG-path mode, the IP1dB of CS path can be cancelled to some extent with the CG path. The
the full working mode has increased by about 9 dBm. linearity of the proposed LNA is further improved because of
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[19] J. Y.-C. Liu, J.-S. Chen, C. Hsia, P.-Y. Yin, and C.-W. Lu, “A Wideband of China, Chengdu, China. Dr. Zhao’s major research interests
Inductorless Single-to-Differential LNA in 0.18um CMOS Technology
include RF CMOS device modeling, CMOS RF transceivers
for Digital TV Receiver,” IEEE Microw. Wirel. Compon. Lett., vol. 24, no.
7, pp. 472–474, Jul. 2014. and power amplifier design for millimeter wave application.
[20] A. L. T. Costa, H. Klimach and S. Bampi, "A 2-Decades Wideband
Low-Noise Amplifier with High Gain and ESD Protection," 2015 28th Huihua Liu received the B.S. degree in
Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design (SBCCI),
electrical and mechanical engineering
Salvador, 2015, pp. 1-6.
[21] S. Arshad, R. Ramzan, K. Muhammad and Q. Wahab “A Sub-10mW, from China University of Petroleum,
Noise Cancelling, Wideband LNA for UWB Applications,” International Beijing, China in 1999, the M.S degree in
Journal of Electronics and Communication, Vol. 69, pp.109–118, 2015. electrical engineering from University of
[22] H.-T. Chou, S.-W. Chen, and H.-K. Chiou, “A Low-Power Wideband
Electronic Science and Technology of
Dual-Feedback LNA Exploiting the Gate-Inductive
Bandwidth/Gain-Enhancement Technique,” in IEEE MTT-S Int. Microw. China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2006,
Symp. Dig., Jun. 2013, pp. 1–3. and from 2011 he is an on-the-job Ph.D.
candidate in school of microelectronics and solid-state
electronics of UESTC.
Yiming Yu was born in Zhejiang, China. Mr. Liu’s major research interests include digital IC design,
He received the B.S. degree in electronic high speed clock and data recovery, A/D, D/A converter.
engineering from the University of
Electronic Science and Technology of Yunqiu Wu (M’11) received the B.S.
China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in and Ph.D. degrees from the University of
2012, and is currently working toward Electronic Science and Technology of
the Ph. D. degree at UESTC. China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2004
His research interests include and 2009, respectively.
modeling of on-chip devices, CMOS RF She was with the Technical University
and mm-Wave integrated circuits and phased array of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, from
transceiver design. 2012 to 2013. She is currently with UESTC
as an Associate Professor. Her current research interests
Kai Kang received the B. Eng degree in include characterizing the microwave parameters of materials
electrical engineering from the and IC device de-embedding and modeling.
Northwestern Polytechnical University,
China in 2002, and the joint Ph.D. degree Yong-Ling Ban received the B.S. degree
from the National University of Singapore, in mathematics from Shandong University,
Singapore and Ecole Supérieure China, the M.S. degree in electromagnetics
D’électricité, France in 2008. from Peking University, China, and the
From 2006 to 2010, he was a Senior Ph.D. degree in microwave engineering
Research Engineer at the Institute of microelectronics, from the University of Electronic Science
A*STAR, Singapore. Since June 2011, he has been with the and Technology of China (UESTC),
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, in 2000, 2003,
where he is now a professor and associate dean of the School of and 2006, respectively.
Electronic Engineering. His research interests are RF and Since September 2010, he has been an Associate Professor of
mm-Wave integrated circuits design and modeling of on-chip microwave engineering with UESTC. His research interests
devices. include multiband small antennas and MIMO antennas for
4G/5G terminal devices, and smart antennas for wireless AP.
Yiming Fan received the B.S. degree in electronic
engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Wen-Yan Yin (M’99–SM’01–F’13)
Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2016, received the M.Sc. degree in
and is currently working toward the M.S. degree at Ohio electromagnetic field and microwave
State University. technique from Xidian University, Xi’an,
His research interests include modeling of devices, China, in 1989, and the Ph.D. degree in
CMOS analog circuits and RF wireless transceiver design. electrical engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong
University, Xi’an, in 1994.
Chenxi Zhao received the B.S. and M.S. He has been with the National University
degrees in electrical engineering from of Singapore, Singapore, since 1998. He
University of Electronic Science and joined the Center for Optical and Electromagnetic Research,
Technology of China, Chengdu, China, in Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2009, as a Qiu Shi
2004 and 2007, respectively, and the Ph.D. Professor.
in electrical engineering from Pohang
University of Science and Technology,
Pohang, Gyungbuk, Korea in 2014.
Since 2014, he is a lecture in the School of Electronic
Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology
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