Applied Sciences (Feb 2022)

Design Techniques for Low-Voltage RF/mm-Wave Circuits in Nanometer CMOS Technologies

  • Egidio Ragonese

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/app12042103
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 4
p. 2103

Abstract

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This paper reviews state-of-the-art design approaches for low-voltage radio frequency (RF) and millimeter-wave (mm-wave) CMOS circuits. Effective design techniques at RF/mm-wave frequencies are described, including body biasing in fully depleted (FD) silicon-on-insulator (SOI) CMOS technologies and circuit topologies based on integrated reactive components (i.e., capacitors, inductors and transformers). The application of low-voltage design techniques is discussed for the main RF/mm-wave circuit blocks, i.e., low-noise amplifiers (LNAs), mixers and power amplifiers (PAs), highlighting the main design tradeoffs.

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