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400 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) SYSTEMS, VOL. 20, NO. 3, MARCH 2012 A 3–5 GHz Current-Reuse -Boosted CG LNA for Ultrawideband in 130 nm CMOS Muhammad Khurram and S. M. Rezaul Hasan, Senior Member, IEEE Abstract— This paper presents a low-power CMOS transcon- the UWB spectrum into 14 528 MHz wide sub-bands [16]. The ductance “ ” boosted common gate (CG) ultrawideband (UWB) sub-bands are further combined into five band-groups as shown low noise amplifier (LNA) architecture, operating in the 3–5 in Fig. 1 [42] and [43]. GHz range, employing current-reuse technique. This proposed UWB CG LNA utilizes a common source (CS) amplifier as the Similar to a narrowband RF system, LNA plays an impera- -boosting stage which shares the bias current with the CG tive role in the CMOS UWB radio receiver front-end. In pub- amplifying stage. A detailed mathematical analysis of the LNA is lished literature, several techniques have been reported to im- carried out and the different design tradeoffs are analyzed. The part high performance in the design of the UWB LNA. Based LNA circuit was designed and fabricated using the 130-nm IBM on the input matching characteristics and noise performance, the CMOS process and it achieved input return loss  and output return loss   variations of respectively 8.4 to 40 dB and published CMOS UWB LNA architectures can be divided into 14 to 15 dB within the pass-band. The LNA exhibits almost two major groups, the common source (CS), and the common flat forward power gain   of 13 dB and a reverse isolation gate (CG) LNA [11], [17]. General topology of these architec-   variation of 55 dB to 40 dB, a