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    Ricardo Martins
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    Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa
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    Luís Mendes
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    Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria
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    João Vaz
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    Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa
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    Fabio Passos
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    Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa
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    Nuno Lourenço
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    Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa
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    Ricardo Martins
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    Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa
    Abstract

    Low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) play a significant role in mod–ern millimeter-wave (mmWave) integrated circuit multi-standard transceiver systems. This paper proposes a transformer-less LNA based on a cascade of two AC coupled common source stages, each with inductive degeneration, for the 28-GHz 5G communications band. An automatic design methodology explores the topology design space over a 148-dimensional performance space spreading through different corners for process, voltage, and temperature. It results in about 1000 optimized LNA variants, with gains achieved up to 17.5-dB, and the noise figure and power consumption down to 2.4-dB and 1.86-mW, respectively. These performance figures position the adopted LNA’s performance boundaries with the most recent mmWave LNAs.

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    • Automatic Design of High-Gain 26.5-to-29.5-GHz Transformer-Less Low-Noise Amplifier 1.86-to-8.87-mW Variants in 65-nm CMOS (application/pdf)