Design and analysis of DC-to-14-GHz and 22-GHz CMOS cascode.

The designs of two fully integrated CMOS cascode distributed amplifiers (DAs) with 14-GHz and 22-GHz bandwidth are presented. Cascode gain cells and m-derived matching sections are used to enhance the gain and bandwidth performance. These amplifiers demonstrated the highest frequency and widest band...

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Published in:	IEEE Journal of solid state circuits 39, 8 (2004).
Main Author:	Ren-Chieh Liu
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	0 to 14 GHz. 14 GHz. 22 GHz. CMOS cascode analysis. CMOS cascode design. EM simulation. MMIC. Bandwidth performance enhancement. Cascode CMOS DA. Cascode gain cells. Distributed amplifiers. Fully integrated CMOS cascode. Gain performance enhancement. M-derived matching section. Small-signal models. Spiral inductors.