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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2012
Celestino A. Corral, Ocala, FL (US);
Celestino A. Corral, Ocala, FL (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for optimizing a cascade gain device comprising at least two gain stages are disclosed. A first noise figure associated with the first gain stage is incrementally increased by a plurality of noise figure increments determined based, at least in part, on a minimum noise figure and a maximum noise figure associated with the first gain stage. At each of the plurality of noise figure increments, at least a gain value that corresponds to the noise figure increment is calculated. One of the plurality of noise figure increments and the corresponding gain value is selected as an optimum noise figure of the first gain stage and an optimum gain value of the first gain stage respectively. Parameters of an inter-stage matching network associated with the first gain stage are configured based on the optimum noise figure and the optimum gain of the first gain stage.