Broadband Small Signal Amplifier - 射频电路与系统及 功率放大器.pdf

Broadband Small Signal Amplifier Design by Tom Pierce JHU 525.787 IC Design Fall 2008 Abstract This paper describes the design and simulation of a two stage broadband small signal amplifier using the TriQuint process for IC fabrication. The design uses two E-Mode pHEMT devices with feedback to achieve a gain of 23 ± 1 dB from 2.305 GHz to 5.785 GHz. The total DC power consumption is 19.68 mW from two 1.5 V supplies. All simulations were performed in Microwave Office version 8.01r build 4229 from Applied Wave Research, Inc. (AWR) with the TriQuint process library version 1.1.21. Introduction This broadband small signal amplifier is designed for low power and small size. It can be operated off of two 1.5 volt batteries drawing 6.56 mA each. It fits within a 30 x 60 mil area including scribe lines. Each stage is identical with the same size FET and voltage divider bias network. The frequency of operation is from 2305 MHz to 5875 MHz. The front end of the amplifier consists of a low pass filter with a cutoff frequency of about 5.8 GHz. Next is the input matching network followed by the first stage FET. An interstage matching network sits between the two stages and at the end is the output matching network (Figure 1). Input Output Low Pass Interstage Matching Bias FET Bias FET Matching Filter Match Network Network Figure 1 Block diagram of 2-stage broadband amplifier D