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An Electronically Reconfigurable Three Band Low-Noise Amplifier In 0.5 Μm Gaas Phemt Technology, Jeffrey A. Shatzman

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

State-of-the-art RF front-end circuits are typically designed to operate at a single frequency. With an increasing number of available wireless standards, personal mobile communication devices require an increasing number of individually designed RF circuits. To save space and cost, one alternative possibility is to reuse much of the circuitry by utilizing electronically reconfigurable topologies. The ubiquitous low-noise amplifier is one of the many circuits that can be redesigned with the reconfigurable aspect in mind. In this thesis, previous work in reconfigurable LNAs is reviewed as well as a brief comparison of CMOS and GaAs processes used for RF amplifiers. Three …