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Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Vol. 6, No. 3, June 2017, pp. 656 ~ 662
DOI: 10.11591/ijeecs.v6.i3.pp656-662  656
Received February 2, 2017; Revised April 29, 2017; Accepted May 13, 2017
Design and Performance Analysis of 1.8 GHz Low
Noise Amplifier for Wireless Receiver Application
A. A Amin1
, M. S. Islam2
, M. A. Masud3
, M. N. H. Khan4
*
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Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Uttara University, Dhaka-1230, Bangladesh
4
School of Electrical, Mechanical and Mechatronic Systems, University of Technology Sydney,
15 Broadway, Ultimo NSW 2007
*Corresponding author, e-mail: nomanxp76@gmail.com
Abstract
In present stereo audio system is a most popular audio system for different purposes. Now a
day’s stereo system is commonly used in communication and other purposes. Moreover Normalized Least
Mean Square (NLMS) based adaptive filtering is an effective filtering process in case of communication
and other applications. However adaptive filtering is an adaptive filter process to cancel out the noise from
audio signal successfully. Hence the main objective of this paper is to design a NLMS adaptive filter which
cancels out the noise from a noisy wave format stereo audio file. Moreover by varying the order of the
adaptive filter (such as 8
th
, 16
th
, 32
th
and 64
th
), the performance of the NMLS adaptive filtered signal with
respect to reference and noisy stereo audio signal are analyzed as well.
Keywords: low noise amplifier (LNA), pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistor (PHEMT), advanced
design system, decibel (dB), reflection coefficients
Copyright © 2017 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science. All rights reserved.
1. Introduction
Wireless communication is vastly used communication system in present days. Hence
wireless communication system provides low cost and mobility so this is very popular
communication system now a day. However the problem is to design a low noise and moderate
gain amplifier for receiver end of wireless communication system. Since noise plays a vital role
in case of communication system specially wireless devices, so in case of high noise figure in
amplification end causes the received signal noisy and it creates more complexities as well.
Moreover the gain flatness can make the amplifier more effective to integrate it at the RF
receiver end [1-2]. The main concept of this paper is to design a effective low noise amplifier for
1.8 GHz RF wireless receiver system. Hence in theoretical calculation and designing segment,
the theoretical calculations will be performed to design the open shunt stub matching network.
However the design precise parameters such as reflection coefficients of source and load end,
stub length and width, gain and noise figure circle are also calculated by ADS for a PHEMT
(ATF-34143) transistor [3]. However the placement of real components as well as the transistor
is also done in second segment. Furthermore the biasing voltage, current and biasing
resistances are also integrated with the model to make the design more practical. In result and
discussion segments the performance evaluation of the designed 1.8 GHz amplifier will be
analyzed based on gain flatness, noise figure, harmonic balance, two tone testing and 1dB
compression point etc. by ADS simulation of the designed model.
2. Parameter Calculation and LNA Design
The main objective of this paper is to design an effective LNA for 1.8GHz and evaluate
the performance. Hence firstly the design parameters are calculated manually by theoretical
equations, afterwards the parameters are simulated by ADS to design a perfectly 50 Ω matching
LNA for 1.8 GHz. Thus the reflection coefficient in source side (Γs) from the intercept point of
noise and gain circle has been chosen. Consequently calculate the reflection coefficients in the
load side (ΓL) as well. Then by using smith chart the open shunt stub lengths and widths are
calculated theoretically.

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Transistor is a main factor of any amplifier designing, so a PHEMT transistor (ATF-
34143) has been used here. So from the data sheet of specific PHEMT transistor ATF-34143
the values of S-parameters for biasing point drain source voltage (Vds) is 3V and drain source
current (Ids) is 20 mA [4]. Choose this point because Noise figures (Fmin) is lowest in this point.
So the chosen S-parameters along with other parameters such as noise figure and optimum
reflection coefficients are given below [4].
S11: 0.78∟-115 S21: 6.843∟98 S12: 0.083∟28 S22: 0.28∟-1
Fmin = 0.17 dB Γopt = 0.74∟57 Rn/50 = 0.10
By using equations (1-6) are used to draw noise and gain circles enclose in smith chart given
below to choose the Γs from the gain and noise circle intercept point. First check the stability
check using equation 1 and 2 [5].
K =
| | | | | |
| |
(1)
Δ = S11S22 – S21S12 (2)
CL =
( )
| | | |
(3)
RL =| | | | |
| (4)
CS =
( )
| | | |
(5)
RS =| | | | |
| (6)
Here the stability parameters are K=0.385 and |Δ|=0.353. Where K<1 and |Δ| <1, so it is
potentially unstable. So now draw the stability circles using equations 3, 4, 5 and 6, however
choose a point which is outside of unstable circle. Since point inside the unstable circle region
are unstable which converts this amplifier to an oscillator. Hence any point outside the unstable
circle has been selected. So the calculated center and radius of the source side and load side
unstable circles which are given below accordingly [5-7].
Source side Unstable Circle:
Center, Cs=1.81∟116.62 Radius, Rs=1.174
Load side Unstable Circle:
Center, CL=11.92∟-62.39 Radius, RL=12.291
In this case 16 dB Gain and 0.5 dB noise factor are chosen since it is low noise
amplifier. As this LNA will be used in receiver end so the noise should be low whether the gain
could have reasonable value. So to design the low noise amplifier, the gain and noise circle with
appropriate center and radius should be calculated by equation 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 [5, 6, 8-9].
GA = |S21|
2
gA (7)
rA =
√ ( )| | | |
| (| | | | )|
(8)
CA =
( )
| (| | | | )|
(9)
The formula for Noise circle is given below,

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CF = RF =
√ ( | | )
(10)
Where, N =
| |
| |
=
⁄
|1-Γopt|
2
(11)
For gain circle the center, CA (0.373 ∟116) and radius, RA (0.444) are calculated.
Consequently for noise circle the center CF (0.5∟57) and radius, RF (0.12) has been calculated
as well. Afterwards by using the smith chart the value of reflection coefficient, (Γs) 0.503 ∟3.30
along with the length and width of the open shunt stub has been calculated for source side, d=
0.171λ and l= 0.365 λ which is showed in Figure 1(a). Subsequently for load side the reflection
coefficient (ΓL) has been calculated by Equation 12 & 13 [5].
Γout = S22
Γ
Γ
(12)
(Γout)*= ΓL (13)
(a) (b)
Figure 1. a) Smith chart for theoretical calculation of source side length of width of open shunt
stub b) Smith chart for theoretical calculation of load side length of width of open shunt stub
So the calculated reflection coefficient (ΓL) is 0.188 ∟167.051 [6]. Moreover the length
and width of the open shunt stub in case of load side from the smith chart are d= 0.13 λ and
l=0.44 λ as well which is showed in Figure 1 (b). For ADS simulation the gain circle and noise
figure circle are analyzed by connecting the s2p file of ATF-34143 with termination port of 50 Ω
[10-11]. Hence it is a low noise amplifier the minimum noise is the main concern rather than
gain. So the interception point of 14 dB gain circle and 0.5 dB noise circle are selected which is
showed in Figure 2. Moreover the measured values of normalized impedances and reflection
coefficients are illustrates in Figure 2.

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Figure 2. Gain, noise circles, source reflection coefficient (Γs) and Load reflection coefficient (ΓL)
for 3V and 20 mA
Moreover for LNA designing purpose the reflection coefficients for source and load
sides are measure as well from the simulation, which is showed in Figure 2 also. All the design
parameters are illustrates in Figure 2 for the gate source voltage of 3 V and the gate source
current of 20 mA for the PHEMT transistor, hence this biasing points provides less noise and
reasonable gain which is showed in Figure 2 [6]. However to design the LNA, line calculation
tool has been used and by exploiting this wavelength (λ=114.852 mm) the open shunt stub
matching network for 50 Ω characteristics impedance has been designed in ADS which is
showed in Figure 3.
Figure 3. Stub matching network in ADS for 1.8 GHz Low Noise Amplifier
Moreover to give the designed amplifier more realistic view a real PHEMT transistor
model (ATF-34143) has been integrated with the model. Moreover to set up the accurate
biasing voltage and current the values of passive biasing resistances (R1= 1.45 KΩ, R2= 2.096
KΩ and R3= 86.95 Ω) are calculated by Kirshoff’s Voltage Law and Kirshoff’s Current Law.
Furthermore the values of drain voltage (VDD =+5 V) and source voltage (Vss -5V) are also

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calculated [12]. Moreover frim the simulation the value of gate source voltage (Vgs =-0.66V)
have been measured as well. These resistances and biasing voltages are integrated with the
model of the transistor and set with the stub matching network to make the simulation more
realistic which is showed in Figure 4.
Figure 4. 1.8 GHz low noise amplifier with appropriate biasing and real components
Figure 4 shows the setup of the open stub matching network for result analysis. Here
the real components such as the simulation model of ATF- 34143 along with biasing voltage,
current and calculated biasing resistances are connected as well for result analysis. To evaluate
the performance of the designed amplifier the gain flatness, reflection coefficients, harmonic
balance, two tone testing and 1dB compression point will be analyzed in the result Segment
(Section 3).
3. Results and Analysis
According to the measurement setup of the designed 1.8 GHz low noise amplifier which
is showed in Figure 4 of segment 2, the result analysis and performance evaluation has been
analyzed in this section. As the gain flatness and noise figure is the main concern in case of
LNA, so Figure 5 shows the result of gain flatness and noise figure of the designed LNA for 1.8
GHz wireless receiver.
Figure 5. Gain flatness and noise figure of the designed LNA for 1.8 GHz

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Figure 5 shows that the gain remains flat at around 16 dB from almost 1.68 GHz to
1.94GHz. However the noise figure is 0.463 dB at same frequency band. In addition the return
loss is below -20 dB at that frequency range however it is around -29 dB at 1.8 GHz frequency.
So afterwards the harmonic balance, two tone testing and 1dB compression points are showed
in Figure 6 (a, b and c).
(a)
(b)
(c)
Figure 6. (a) Response of harmonic balance measurements (b) Response of 2 tone test
measurements (c) Result for 1 dB compression of the designed 1.8 GHz LNA

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Figure 6 (a) shows that the powers of different order harmonics are suppressed around
-10 dBm. However the power of main tone is around 12 dBm. Moreover in figure 6 (b) two
tonetesting has been successfully done by 1.8 GHz and 1.9 GHz signal which shows that there
is not much non linearity of the designed low noise amplifier. In addition figure 6 (c) shows that
the 1 dB compression starts for around the input signal power is -6 dBm input and the output
power remains constant at 8.928 dB. So the 1.8 GHz low noise amplifier provides satisfactory
results and performance at each and every perspective of performance analysis. Moreover the
designed amplifier provides satisfactory gain of around 16 dB and noise figure of around 0.5 dB
as well to implement this system with wireless communication receiver to enhance the
performance
4. Conclusion
The main concern of this paper is to design and result analysis of 1.8 GHz low noise
amplifier for wireless receiver application. Hence the open shunt stub matching network has
been designed based on stability circle, gain and noise circle as well. Afterwards a PHEMT
transistor (ATF-34143) has been integrated with proper biasing voltage and current along with
biasing resistances as well. The LNA provides satisfactory gain of 16 dB along with proper gain
flatness. Nevertheless the noise figure is around 0.5 dB as well hence noise is the main concern
in case of receiving end of any wireless communication system. Moreover the harmonic
balance, two tone testing and 1 dB compression point provides acceptable results as well for
wireless receiver application for 1.8 GHz frequency.
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