A low-voltage design technique for RF integrated circuits
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing
- Vol. 45 (10) , 1408-1413
- https://doi.org/10.1109/82.728853
Abstract
We report an integrated RF circuit topology that canbe used to realize low voltage (i.e., 1 V) RF integrated circuits.The scheme uses on-chip capacitively coupled resonating elementsto dc isolate circuit elements that under the present art are connectedin series and share a common dc current. The topology isapplied to several commonly used RF integrated circuit topologies(i.e., low-noise amplifiers and mixers). A comparison is madebetween a low-voltage version of a cascode amplifier and...Keywords
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