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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2012
Tamer Ali, Irvine, CA (US);
Ali Nazemi, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
Namik Kocaman, San Clemente, CA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure enable bandwidth extension of receiver front-end circuits without the use of inductors. As a result, significantly smaller and cheaper receiver implementations are made possible. In an embodiment, bandwidth extension is achieved by virtue of very small floating capacitors that are coupled around amplifier stages of the receiver front-end circuit. Each of the capacitors is configured to generate a negative capacitance for the preceding stage (e.g., equalizer or amplifier), thus extending the bandwidth of the preceding stage. A capacitively-degenerated cross-coupled transistor pair allows bandwidth extension for the final (e.g., amplifier) stage. Embodiments further enable DC offset compensation with the use of a digital feedback loop. The feedback loop can thus be turned on/off as needed, reducing power consumption.