Analysis and design of wide-ba...

thesis_srikanthANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF CMOS WIDE-BAND LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS

a thesis submitted to the department of electrical engineering and the committee on graduate studies of stanford university in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of engineer

Srikanth Arekapudi August 2004

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I certify that I have read this thesis and that, in my opinion, it is fully adequate in scope and quality as a thesis for the degree of Engineer.

Boris Murmann (Principal Advisor)

Approved for the University Committee on Graduate Studies.

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Abstract
The implementation of Low Noise Amplier (LNA) front-ends is one of the challenging aspects in emerging Ultra Wide-Band (UWB) radio frequency (RF) systems. As it is highly desirable to achiev