Design Methodologies for Radio Frequency Low Noise Amplifier for IEEE Standards under IEEE 802.11 b/g and IEEE 802.15

Issue: Vol.5 No.2

Authors:

Arun Sharma (National Institute of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management, Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI))

Keywords: Low noise amplifier (LNA), WLAN, Bluetooth, noise, gain, topology, ADS, CADENCE.

Abstract: 

In present day society where communication technologies are advancing at spiral rate, the need for efficient integrated circuit design to transmit and receive signals at unlicensed frequency spectrum is inevitable. At receiving front end, the low noise amplifier design, being the first building block to receive the signal puts a tremendous challenge on modern day radio frequency engineers to meet real world problems involving trade-off in design issues. In this paper the trade-offs were streamlined in concurrence to IEEE 802.11 b/g and IEEE 802.15.

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