WO2005078921A3 - Radio frequency low noise amplifier with automatic gain control - Google Patents

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WO2005078921A3
WO2005078921A3 PCT/US2005/002665 US2005002665W WO2005078921A3 WO 2005078921 A3 WO2005078921 A3 WO 2005078921A3 US 2005002665 W US2005002665 W US 2005002665W WO 2005078921 A3 WO2005078921 A3 WO 2005078921A3
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low noise
noise amplifier
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Andrew W Krone
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    • H03F3/189High frequency amplifiers, e.g. radio frequency amplifiers
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    • H03F3/45076Differential amplifiers with semiconductor devices only characterised by the way of implementation of the active amplifying circuit in the differential amplifier
    • H03F3/45179Differential amplifiers with semiconductor devices only characterised by the way of implementation of the active amplifying circuit in the differential amplifier using MOSFET transistors as the active amplifying circuit
    • HELECTRICITY
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    • HELECTRICITY
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    • H03F2200/06A balun, i.e. balanced to or from unbalanced converter, being present at the input of an amplifier
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    • HELECTRICITY
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    • H03F2200/372Noise reduction and elimination in amplifier
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Abstract

A low noise amplifier (500) includes a first transconductance device (326) having a control electrode for receiving a first input signal, and a first current electrode; a first load device (322) having a first terminal coupled to a first power supply voltage terminal and a second terminal coupled to the first current electrode of the first transconductance device (326) and forming a first output voltage signal; a second transconductance device (336) having a control electrode for receiving a second input signal, and a second current electrode; a second load device (332) having a first terminal coupled to the first power supply voltage terminal and a second terminal coupled to the first current electrode of the second transconductance device (336) and forming a second output voltage signal; and an attenuation device (340) coupled between the first current electrodes of the first (326) and second (336) transconductance devices and having a control input terminal for receiving a control voltage thereon.
PCT/US2005/002665 2004-02-11 2005-02-02 Radio frequency low noise amplifier with automatic gain control WO2005078921A2 (en)

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DE602005017014T DE602005017014D1 (en) 2004-02-11 2005-02-02 RAZOR HIGH FREQUENCY AMPLIFIER WITH AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL
EP05712201A EP1719243B1 (en) 2004-02-11 2005-02-02 Radio frequency low noise amplifier with automatic gain control
CN2005800046220A CN1918790B (en) 2004-02-11 2005-02-02 Radio frequency low noise amplifier with automatic gain control

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