{"title":"A 19-GHz Broadband Amplifier Using a gm-Boosted Cascode in 0.18-μm CMOS","authors":"Masum Hossain, A. C. Carusone","doi":"10.1109/CICC.2006.320832","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a broadband CMOS amplifier for differential receiver front-ends. A capacitive cross-coupling network provides passive gmboosting in the input cascode stage. This results in a greater than 30% increase in bandwidth. Combined with several other established bandwidth-enhancement techniques, the prototype achieves a measured 3-dB bandwidth of 19 GHz with no peaking in a 0.18-μm CMOS process. The dc gain is 11 dB differential, and the power consumption is 113 mW. Eye diagrams up to 24 Gb/s are shown.","PeriodicalId":269854,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference 2006","volume":"647 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"8","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference 2006","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CICC.2006.320832","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper describes a broadband CMOS amplifier for differential receiver front-ends. A capacitive cross-coupling network provides passive gmboosting in the input cascode stage. This results in a greater than 30% increase in bandwidth. Combined with several other established bandwidth-enhancement techniques, the prototype achieves a measured 3-dB bandwidth of 19 GHz with no peaking in a 0.18-μm CMOS process. The dc gain is 11 dB differential, and the power consumption is 113 mW. Eye diagrams up to 24 Gb/s are shown.