1. Novel CMOS Active Inductor for Tunable RF Circuits
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Haddad, Fayrouz., Slimane, Abdelhalim, Tedjini, Sid Ahmed, Haddad, Fayrouz, Centre de devellopement des technologies avancées (cdta), Centre de devellopement des technologies avancées, Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Institut des Matériaux, de Microélectronique et des Nanosciences de Provence (IM2NP), Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and HADDAD, Fayrouz
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business.industry ,Computer science ,[SPI.NANO] Engineering Sciences [physics]/Micro and nanotechnologies/Microelectronics ,Amplifier ,020208 electrical & electronic engineering ,Electrical engineering ,020206 networking & telecommunications ,02 engineering and technology ,Inductor ,Power (physics) ,Gyrator ,Quality (physics) ,CMOS ,Hardware_GENERAL ,Hardware_INTEGRATEDCIRCUITS ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,[SPI.NANO]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Micro and nanotechnologies/Microelectronics ,business ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,Voltage ,Electronic circuit - Abstract
Future wireless transceivers must support several communication standards with low-cost, low-area and low power consumption. In this letter, a novel wide tunable CMOS active inductor dedicated to RF circuits for multistandard applications is presented. Only negative transconductors are considered in the proposed gyrator instead of the conventional one. To save the silicon area, the new active inductor is implemented employing puch-pull amplifier cells as negative transconductors. Using a $0.13-\mu m$ CMOS technology, the obtained simulation results (a) show a wide frequency range inductive behavior with high self resonance frequency. High quality factors are reached with good agility while covering the frequency range of 2 to 2.6 GHz and consuming a dc power of 0.9 to 1.3mW from 1 V of supply voltage.
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- 2018
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