Design and Layout Techniques for a mm-Wave Body-Biased Variable-Gain Amplifier

作者:Rashtian Hooman*; Mirabbasi Shahriar
来源:International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering, 2014, 24(4): 470-477.
DOI:10.1002/mmce.20788

摘要

A two-stage mm-wave variable-gain amplifier is designed and implemented in a 65-nm CMOS technology. A fully symmetric layout has been utilized to suppress the odd-mode of propagation and increase the quality factor in co-planar waveguide transmission lines. Moreover, a new design technique is proposed for implementing decoupling capacitors for mm-wave frequencies. Body-biasing technique is utilized to change the amplifier gain without significant change in the overall power consumption of the circuit. The measurement results show that the amplifier achieves a peak gain of 10 dB with a gain variation range of 25 dB while consuming 12 mW from a 1.2-V supply.

  • 出版日期2014-7

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