An Inherently dB-linear All-CMOS Variable Gain Amplifier

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper introduces a simple variable gain amplifier (VGA) structure that shows an inherently dB-linear gain control property. Requiring no additional components for dB-linear control, the structure is compact and power efficient. The designed two-stage VGA shows a gain control range of 60dB with the gain error in the range of ±0.4 dB. The power consumption including the output buffer is 20.4 mW from 1.2 V supply voltage with bandwidth of 630 MHz. The prototype was fabricated in a 0.13 ㎛ CMOS process and the VGA core occupies 0.06 ㎟

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Abstract
• Ⅰ. INTRODUCTION
• Ⅱ. INHERENTLY DB-LINEAR VGA CELL
• Ⅲ. NON-IDEAL EFFECTS OF CASCODE VGA CELL
• Ⅵ. CIRCUITS IMPLEMENTATION
• Ⅴ. MEASUREMENT RESULTS
• Ⅵ. CONCLUSIONS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• REFERENCES

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