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An ESD-Protected 5-GHz Differential Low-Noise Amplifier in a 130-nm CMOS Process
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4 P* O+ T$ [* s( l) j- XAbstract- A novel ESD protection design for radio-frequency (RF) differential input/output (I/O) pads is proposed and successfully
$ ?: a- x0 l5 W. Q2 B% @$ Gapplied to a 5-GHz differential low-noise amplifier (LNA) in a 130-nm CMOS process. In the proposed ESD protection design,) t* c- M; `4 s: T( `: g k
an ESD bus and a local ESD clamp device are added between the differential input pads to quickly bypass ESD current, especially
4 ^( Z! \. ?: b: }under the pin-to-pin ESD-stress condition. With 10.3-mW power consumption under 1.2-V power supply, the differential LNA
u( e7 C7 e& j6 O; ?9 M$ Rwith 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.; e- Y, D& S- }' @
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