I am begineer in RFIC design, I will begin my PHD in this domain but I haven't any idea about trend of PA or LNA design. I need a help of persons who have an experience to show me a way
You'd better read the cllassic book about PA and PNA and design a PA or LNA. It doesn't matter if it works well. "RF Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications" is recommended as a classic book about PA.
i got my phd about pa design from scratch.it is really hard to get started.my suggestion is talk with some expericed people,like steve cripps or steve mass and some other pa expertise.it could help u to get some idea quickly.
noise cancellation , simply u put a MOS device so it is noise current cancels out some of the noise in the ouput of the amp to achieve less noise figure , but i have no more detail , i heard about it , but u can check in the IEEE , u will find alot
Hi,
I don't think you can speak about a trend, instead i will be better to identify an application and then choose the kind of amplifier you wil develop.
if you are interested in RFIC I think there are a lot of example and choices in wireles market...GSM, WiMax....
Then I think you need an idea about the process you can have access and the pdk you can use...
i think he mean by process idea , some knowledge about the process u will use to design LNA and PA , like what is the mnimum channel length , number of metal layers , are there inductors , and so on
Are you working on distributed amplifier ? can you give me some ads-example? and what about the Rf tsmc 0.18µ design kits ? do you want to send it for me?
thanks a lot