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An ESD-Protected 5-GHz Differential Low-Noise Amplifier in a 130-nm CMOS Process! T. H: y6 _ Z# v" S9 x" c
. C/ l7 _7 A3 t+ aAbstract- A novel ESD protection design for radio-frequency (RF) differential input/output (I/O) pads is proposed and successfully2 M* W& g/ ~6 S8 e, J z, B
applied to a 5-GHz differential low-noise amplifier (LNA) in a 130-nm CMOS process. In the proposed ESD protection design,
# m9 v% r" v- n2 uan ESD bus and a local ESD clamp device are added between the differential input pads to quickly bypass ESD current, especially
& @3 ^& Q# q9 x8 junder the pin-to-pin ESD-stress condition. With 10.3-mW power consumption under 1.2-V power supply, the differential LNA
8 G0 P( t4 ~) ~6 Twith the proposed ESD protection design has the human-bodymodel (HBM) ESD robustness of 3 kV, and exhibits 18-dB power gain and 2.62-dB noise figure at 5 GHz. Experimental results have demonstrated that the proposed ESD protection circuit can be co-designed with the input matching network of LNA to simultaneously achieve excellent RF performance and high ESD robustness.2 p$ h% {% Q- ?3 p8 E
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