[摘要] |
本篇論文主旨在設計一個具高靜電放電防護能力之射頻互補式金氧半導體低雜訊放大器。 |
我們提出了一個新形態利用電感電容共振產生阻抗隔絕效果的完整靜電放電防護電路,其 |
中包含了VDD至VSS間的靜電放電防護電路。 |
論文中第二部份針對靜電放電防護電路的寄生效應對低雜訊放大器特性的影響加以探討, |
包含S-參數,輸入組抗匹配之變動,並提出一完整之雜訊計算公式,且提供了部分參數分 |
析圖示及電路模擬結果。 |
第三部分我們設計並實現了一組操作在5.2GHz頻段之互補式射頻金氧半導體低雜訊放大器 |
,分成利用傳統二極體保護及新型態電感電容共振保護與無靜電放電保護之電路三種型態 |
做比較,並實現於一個具厚上層金屬線之標準0.25微米1P5M之互補式金氧半導體製程,其 |
中包括電感模型之建立。 |
實驗結果顯示具靜電放電防護電路之低雜訊放大器會有中心操作位移之情形,利用一外加 |
的輸出阻抗匹配電路可使之拉回到所設計的頻段。藉使用量測到之S-參數重新模擬的結果 |
顯示,新型態電感電容共振保護之低雜訊放大器與傳統二極體保護比較具有較佳的射頻特 |
性。而實驗結果也顯示新型電感電容共振保護之低雜訊放大器有較低之雜訊指數,因此在 |
未來射頻操作頻率愈加增高的趨勢之下,此設計將成為更適合高頻應用之靜電放電防護電 |
路。 |
經量測,具新型電感電容共振保護之低雜訊放大器可承受4.9仟伏特之人體靜電放電模式測 |
試及275伏特機器靜電放電模式測試。 |
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[摘要] |
A CMOS RF LNA with high ESD
sustain ability is presented in this thesis. A |
novel LC tank ESD protected LNA
based on impedance isolation is proposed. The |
whole ESD design includes power
rail ESD clamp circuit between VDD to VSS. |
In the second part, a detailed
and comprehensive noise analysis of the LNA |
without and with input ESD
protection has been investigated, including |
modified power gain by ESD
devices, input matching property, noise figure and |
the portion of the noise power
generated by ESD devices. We provide some noise |
equation and simulation results
in this section. |
In the third part, three types
of 5.2GHz CMOS RF LNA are designed and |
implement in 0.25-μm CMOS
process, including pure LNA without any ESD |
protection, LNA with novel LC
tank ESD protection and LNA with conventional |
diode ESD protection. We also
develop some on-chip inductor modeling. |
The experimental results show
that the center frequencies of ESD protected LNA |
are shifting. After adding
proper output matching network, the ESD protected |
LNA will have the same center
frequency. Re-simulation results based on |
measured S-parameter show that
LC tank protected LNA has better RF performance |
than diode protected one. And
measured noise figure also shows that LC tank |
protected LNA has lower noise
level than diode protected one. Thus the ESD |
protection with LC tank is more
suitable for RF application of higher |
operating frequency in the
future. |
The LC tank ESD protected LNA
can pass a HBM ESD level of 4.9kV and a MM ESD |
level of 275V. |