Research Article
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) | (dB) | (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 |
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Post-layout simulation results.
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