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Information Theoretic Analysis of Concurrent Information Transfer and Power Gain
In this paper, we analyze the fundamental trade-off between information
transfer and power gain by means of an information-theoretic framework in
communications circuits. This analysis is of interest as many of today's
applications require that maximum information and maximum signal power are
extracted (or transferred) through the circuit at the same time for further
processing so that a compromise concerning the signal spectral shape as well as
the matching network has to be found. To this end, the optimization framework
is applied to a two-port circuit, which is used as an abstraction for a
broadband amplifier. Thereby, we characterize the involved Pareto bound by
considering different optimization problems. The first one aims at optimizing
the input power spectral density (PSD) as well as the source and load
admittances, whereas the second approach assumes the PSD to be fixed and
uniformly distributed within a fixed bandwidth and optimizes the source and
load admittances only. Moreover, we will show that additional matching networks
may help to improve the trade-off.Comment: 4 page
Low Noise Amplifier Design for Ultra-WideBand Radio
A new theoretical approach for designing a low-noise amplifier (LNA) for the ultra-wideband (UWB) radio is presented. Unlike narrowband systems, the use of the noise figure (NF) performance metric becomes problematic in UWB systems because of the difficulty in defining the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). By defining the SNR as the matched filter bound (MFB), the NF measures the degree of degradation caused by the LNA in the achievable receiver performance after the digital decoding process. The optimum matching network that minimizes the NF as defined above has been solved. Since realizing the optimum matching network is in general difficult, an approach for designing a practical but suboptimum matching network is also presented. The NF performance of both the optimum and the suboptimum matching networks is studied as a function of the LNA gain.