Chip-package co-design of common emitter LNA in system-on-package with on-chip versus off-chip passive component analysis

X. Duo, Li-Rong Zheng, H. Tenhunen
2003 Electrical Performance of Electrical Packaging (IEEE Cat. No. 03TH8710)  
In this paper, we present common emitter LNAs (low noise amplifiers) in system-on-package for 5GHz WLAN application. Innovation of this module is that it is chip-package co-designed and co-simulated with performance trade-offs for on-chip versus offchip passive component integration. It thus provides an optimal total solution for embedded RF electronics in system-level integration. Analytical equations for key performance parameters, noise figure and gain, of these LNAs are developed as
more » ... s of quality factors of passive components and the package parasitics. They hence provide designers a quantitative trade-off for on-
doi:10.1109/epep.2003.1249999 fatcat:yjhn2j6pbnen7o3txd52i5x3gu