Design of BDS-3 RDSS low noise amplifier based on millimeter wave tube

Abstract

The existing Beidou signal receiver has a low-noise amplifier scheme in the S-band, and the noise figure is between 1.5 dB～1.7 dB under the condition of meeting the gain requirements and the noise performance can be further optimized. The scheme studies a low noise amplifier(LNA) based on a high-bandwidth millimeter wave tube. The tube is based on NPN broadband silicon germanium RF transistor process. Amplifier uses two-stage conjugate matching to achieve the best balance between circuit noise and gain，and uses LDO circuit linear regulated output to minimize power supply noise. ADS software simulation, Altium designer board and actual measurement of Agilent noise analyzer show that it′s single-stage amplifier has a minimum noise figure of 0.4 dB. At 2.492 GHz, the maximum gain of the solution is 32 dB, and the corresponding noise figure is 1.23 dB. The low-noise amplifier scheme is applied to the front end of Beidou user receiver, which can effectively improve the system noise performance and improve the signal receiving efficiency.

Keywords

• beidou-3 satellite receiver
• low noise amplifier
• advanced design systems simulation
• millimeter wave tube