Co-design method for dual-band low-noise amplifier and band-pass filter.

A co-design method for the dual-band low-noise amplifier (LNA) and band-pass filter (BPF) is presented in this study. The dual-band BPF and LNA are designed separately by the traditional method first. In order to reduce the circuit, the dual-band matching networks (MNs) of the LNA and BPF are combined into the dual-band matching-filter. The validity is verified by a sample of 1.57/2.4 GHz LNA-filter after the co-design. The measured S21, NF and BW3 dB are 18.6 dB, 1.98 dB and 0.22 GHz at 1.57 GHz, and 15.2 dB, 1.95 dB and 0.3 GHz at 2.31 GHz, respectively. The results indicate that the co-design and cascade versions have same performance, but the co-design version cuts down the number of the passive components by nearly half. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]