A 5-Gb/s 66 dB CMOS Variable-Gain Amplifier With Reconfigurable DC-Offset Cancellation for Multi-Standard Applications

This paper proposes a variable gain amplifier (VGA) with reconfigurable DC-offset cancellation (DCOC) for multi-standard applications. In this design, a cell-based design method and some bandwidth extension technologies are adopted to achieve a high data rate and a wide gain control range simultaneo...

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Main Authors: Zhiqing Liu, Yunqiu Wu, Chenxi Zhao, Johannes Benedikt, Kai Kang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2018-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8447188/
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Summary:This paper proposes a variable gain amplifier (VGA) with reconfigurable DC-offset cancellation (DCOC) for multi-standard applications. In this design, a cell-based design method and some bandwidth extension technologies are adopted to achieve a high data rate and a wide gain control range simultaneously. In addition, the DCOC having a tunable lower-cutoff frequency can make an optimum compromise between BER and SNR according to the specified baseband standard. The measurements show that the VGA achieves a gain control range from &#x2212;6 dB to 60 dB, a bandwidth beyond 3 GHz, and a tunable lower-cutoff frequency from 0 to 300 kHz. When entering a 2<sup>23</sup>&#x2212;1 pseudo-random bit sequence signal at 5 Gb/s, the VGA consumes 17 mW from a 1.2-V supply and the output data peak-to-peak jitter is less than 40 ps. The VGA is fabricated in a 90-nm CMOS process with a chip size (including all pads) of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$0.52\times0.5$ </tex-math></inline-formula> mm<sup>2</sup>.
ISSN:2169-3536