Nanoscale RF CMOS transceiver design
Abstract
This thesis provides guidelines for low-power (LP) RFIC design, focusing on low-noise amplifier (LNA) design, by implementing, measuring, characterizing, and modeling a 90 nm CMOS LP process, from DC to RF. De-embedding is applied to RF and noise measurements in order to remove parasitics inserted from pads and interconnect lines from the device-under-test (DUT).Model parameters essential for circuit design, e.g., excess noise factor, γ, and thermal noise parameter, δ, are verified with measurements for the first time, for various channel lengths over the channel inversion level. The optimum bias point for noise matching is obtained close to moderate inversion (M.I.) and is shown to be shifted to inversion levels within the M.I. region, as channel length decreases.Small signal characterization and modeling of active devices is performed and conventional as well as more complex figures of Merit (FoMs), recently proposed, such as transconductance frequency product, are examined. Measurem ...
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