In this paper, a CMOS cascaded two-stage distributed amplifier for ultra-wideband (UWB) application is presented. The circuit using two-stage cascaded topology achieves better gain-bandwidth product performance than conventional CMOS distributed amplifiers. The simulated gain is 18dB with ±1dB gain flatness over 3.1∼10.6 GHz bands. Input and output are matched to 50Ω, and the return losses of input and output are below -10dB and -9dB respectively. The power dissipation is 54mW with 1.8V power supply. The circuit was fabricated in 0.18-μm 1P6M RF CMOS process.
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Advanced System Integrated Circuits 2004. Proceedings of 2004 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on
Date of Conference: 4-5 Aug. 2004