CMOS Ultra-Wideband Low Noise Amplifier Design

Table 1

Proposed UWB LNA performance summery in comparison to recently published UWB LNAs.

Reference	BW; (GHz)	Gain; (dB)	NF; (dB)	𝑆11; (dB)	𝑆22; (dB)
This work (LNA2)*	2.5~16	11 ± 1.0	<3.3	<−7	<−7.25
This work (LNA1)*	3.1~10.6	17 ± 1.5	<2.3	< −11	<−10
LNA-1 [1]	1.7~5.9	11.2 ± 2.3	<4.7	<−11.8	<−12.7
LNA-2 [1]	1.5~11.7	12.2 ± 0.6	<4.8	<−8.6	<−10
[2]	3~10.6	15	<4.4	<−7	NA
[12]	3.1~10.6	10.8 ± 1.7	<6	<−10	<−9.3
[13]	1~5	12.7 ± 0.2	<3.5	<−8	NA

∗Post-layout simulation results.