A 5-GHz inductor-noise cancelling receiver with 1.8 dB noise figure in 65nm LP CMOS

Abstract

In this paper, a novel receiver architecture with inductor-noise cancellation technique is presented. The proposed receiver employs two separate down-conversion paths driven by I/Q LOs respectively, and the noise of on-chip gate inductor of common-source LNA is cancelled at the baseband output, without additional penalty on power consumption, while the signal is in-phase and strengthened. The noise figure is therefore significantly improved versus prior arts. A demo 5-GHz receiver employing the proposed architecture is designed and implemented in a 65-nm low power CMOS process. Measured result shows a noise figure of 1.8 dB at 5 GHz band, while consuming only 95 mW of power from a 1.2 V supply.