Design of high-performance E-band SPDT switch and LNA in 0.13 μm SiGe BiCMOS technology

Raju Ahamed, Mikko Varonen, Dristy Parveg, Jan Saijets, Kari A. I. Halonen
2017 2017 IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NORCAS): NORCHIP and International Symposium of System-on-Chip (SoC)  
This paper presents the design of high-performance E-band single-pole double-through (SPDT) switch and low noise amplifier (LNA) as a part of transceiver front-end in an 0.13 µm SiGe BiCMOS technology. The quarter-wave shunt SPDT switch is designed using reverse-saturated SiGe HBTs. The resulting switch exhibits an insertion loss of 2.1 dB, isolation of 26 dB, reflection coefficient better than 18 dB at 75 GHz and provides a bandwidth of more than 35 GHz. The designed switch is integrated with
more » ... single-in differential-output (SIDO) low noise amplifier (LNA) and utilized as input matching element of the LNA. The LNA utilizes a common-emitter amplifier at the first stage and a casocode amplifier at the second stage to exploit the advantages of both common-emitter and cascode topologies. The resulting LNA with integrated switch achieves a gain and noise figure(NF) of 26 dB and 6.9 dB, respectively at 75 GHz with a 3 dB bandwidth of 12 GHz. Output referred 1-dB compression point of +5.5 dBm is achieved at 75 GHz. The designed integrated block consumes 45.5 mW of DC power and occupies an area of 720 µm x 580 µm excluding RF pads.
doi:10.1109/norchip.2017.8124975 dblp:conf/norchip/AhamedVPSH17 fatcat:vmezy6waqndjxp5zdawhhykk4q