Abstract:
A two-stage amplifier in 22-nm FD-SOI CMOS integrates a fully-differential bridged T-coil for the first time. Circuit performance is benchmarked against an identical amplifier topology designed with single-ended T-coils (pseudo-differential) and an unpeaked reference. It realizes 70-GHz bandwidth with 12 1 2-ps group delay and > 10-dB return loss across 90 GHz. Bandwidth is 2.2…