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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2010
Applicants:
Ming-ching Kuo, Yizhu Township, TW;
Yi-shing Shih, Changhua, TW;
Shih-hao Tarng, Kaohsiung, TW;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Industrial Technology Research Institute, Chutung Hsinchu, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 3/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The noise figure of a low noise amplifier (LNA) is reduced without sacrificing performance such as gain, IIP3, and wideband impedance matching. Embodiments include configuring a control module of the LNA to sum and scale an output from a current-sensing branch of the LNA and an output from a voltage sensing branch of the LNA into one or more summed and scaled outputs. The control module also feeds the one or more summed and scaled outputs back to at least one of the outputs of the branches of the LNA.