A DC-2.5GHz voltage variable attenuator in 0.18-μm CMOS technology

I. L. Abdalla; A. Allam; Ramesh Pokharel; Hongting Jia

doi:10.1109/APCCAS.2014.7032792

A DC-2.5GHz voltage variable attenuator in 0.18-μm CMOS technology

I. L. Abdalla, A. Allam, Ramesh Pokharel, Hongting Jia

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A CMOS variable voltage attenuator(VVA) with wide bandwidth has been designed and fabricated in a 0.18-μm CMOS process. Four bridge-T stages are cascaded to achieve 12 dB of dynamic range attenuation over a frequency range from DC up to 2.5 GHz. Cascaded bridge-T stages can be programmed to achieve the full scale attenuation and ensure good input and output matching. The design operates with 1.5-dB step size and with a maximum input power of -13 dBm in the entire frequency DC-2.5 GHz range. Worst case S₁₁ is -11.5 dB across the frequency band. The design achieves an input third order intercept point (IIP3) of+31 dBm at maximum-attenuation.

Original language	English
Pages	352-355
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/APCCAS.2014.7032792
Publication status	Published - Feb 5 2015
Event	2014 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, APCCAS 2014 - Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, Japan Duration: Nov 17 2014 → Nov 20 2014

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Other	2014 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, APCCAS 2014
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Ishigaki Island, Okinawa
Period	11/17/14 → 11/20/14

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