A wideband cmos cascaded variable gain amplifier using unequally distributed gain control for DVB-S.2 receiver

Hyeonseok Hwang; Hoonki Kim; Chan Hui Jeong; Chan Keun Kwon; Sanggeun Jeon; Soo Won Kim; Yoosam Na; Hyunhwan Yoo

doi:10.1142/S0218126613400082

A wideband cmos cascaded variable gain amplifier using unequally distributed gain control for DVB-S.2 receiver

Hyeonseok Hwang, Hoonki Kim, Chan Hui Jeong, Chan Keun Kwon, Sanggeun Jeon, Soo Won Kim, Yoosam Na, Hyunhwan Yoo

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A fully integrated three stage cascaded radio frequency variable gain amplifier (RFVGA) linearly controlled by exponential current generation circuit is presented. The gain control is unequally distributed in each stage for noise figure (NF) and linearity performance. The dB-linear gain control is realized using pseudo exponential current generated by CMOS current summing circuit with a voltage to current converter. The RFVGA has over 50 dB dynamic range. Gain changes from-38.5 to 16.8 dB according to control voltage that varies from 0.5 to 1.8 V. It operates at 0.95-2.15 GHz. This design is implemented in 0.18 μm CMOS technology.

Original language	English
Article number	1340008
Journal	Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers
Volume	22
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218126613400082
Publication status	Published - 2013 Oct

Keywords

CMOS
DVB-S.2
dB-linear
gain control
triple-well
variable gain amplifier (VGA)

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Hardware and Architecture
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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