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An ESD-Protected 5-GHz Differential Low-Noise Amplifier in a 130-nm CMOS Process
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6 o% F: g' i; U6 H$ ZAbstract- A novel ESD protection design for radio-frequency (RF) differential input/output (I/O) pads is proposed and successfully
; C! v* u3 D: {" X" S* Yapplied to a 5-GHz differential low-noise amplifier (LNA) in a 130-nm CMOS process. In the proposed ESD protection design,
9 `( [6 h8 ^ b* f, S A, Xan ESD bus and a local ESD clamp device are added between the differential input pads to quickly bypass ESD current, especially
2 f: s( K3 {- V Q( P- sunder the pin-to-pin ESD-stress condition. With 10.3-mW power consumption under 1.2-V power supply, the differential LNA
P; q# |$ g* D5 s" L& Q7 I2 k# Awith 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.% L- Z6 U. } b: ?4 l4 F J6 k7 B
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