Monolithic CMOS distributed amplifier and oscillator
- 20 January 2003
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Abstract
CMOS implementations for RF applications often employ technology modifications to reduce the silicon substrate loss at high frequencies. The most common techniques include the use of a high-resistivity substrate (/spl rho/>10 /spl Omega/-cm) or silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate and precise bondwire inductors. However, these techniques are incompatible with low-cost CMOS manufacture. This design demonstrates use of CMOS with a conventional low-resistivity epi-substrate and on-chip inductors for applications above 10 GHz.Keywords
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