Title
Design and measurement techniques for a low noise amplifier in a receiver chain for MedRadio spectrum of 401–406 MHz frequency band
Abstract
This work presents design and practical techniques to measure specifications of a low noise amplifier (LNA) in a complete receiver chain at Medical Device Radio Communication (MedRadio) band in 401–406 MHz frequency range. Supported by detailed quantitative explanations, the proposed measurement methods help in characterizing the LNA without duplicating it on the chip only for the characterization and promises to save experimental time and cost. A common source inductively degenerated LNA has been designed and fabricated in 180 nm mixed mode CMOS technology. The measurement results show that the LNA consumes 700 μW power while giving a voltage gain of 31 dB, S <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">11</inf> <-14 dB and noise figure of 5.8 dB at 400 MHz frequency. Complete receiver chain measurements with this LNA confirms the results from the proposed methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/ISVDAT.2016.8064846
2016 20th International Symposium on VLSI Design and Test (VDAT)
Keywords
Field
DocType
LNA,MedRadio,Measurement techniques,Biomedical,401-406 MHz
Low-noise amplifier,Frequency band,Computer science,Voltage,Impedance matching,Noise figure,Electronic engineering,Chip,CMOS,Mixed mode,Electrical engineering
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2475-8620
978-1-5090-1423-1
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
6