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analog_cha
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NF min of a device
Jul 09th, 2009, 4:19am
 
My question may sound silly.

For a device, is NFmin constant irrespective of its size?
The expression for NFmin does have all technology constants. NFmin should be fixed by the process.
But when i simulated the device for its NFmin, it varies with size.

I am unable to understand this discrepency. Can anybody explain??
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Re: NF min of a device
Reply #1 - Jul 12th, 2009, 5:57pm
 
NFmin is the minimum noise figure achievable for a particular device.

As a device, from any technology, is scaled up the transconductance tends to increase (and input referred noise decreases) and the input thermal noise due to resistance goes down, so it makes some sense that NFmin will reduce as the width increases from the minimum. But, of course, at some point the increased input capacitance is so high that the effective transconductance starts to decrease with increasing area, so NFmin will start to increase again at high frequencies.

Hope this helps a little.
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Reply #2 - Oct 24th, 2009, 11:45pm
 
@above
could u plz explain this point clearly "at some point the increased input capacitance is so high that the effective transconductance starts to decrease with increasing area"
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Reply #3 - Nov 2nd, 2009, 7:09pm
 
I simply meant that as the device area gets bigger, so does Cgs which reduces ft (i.e. high frequency gain is limited by the capacitance). As the gain reduces, then the input referred noise increases, so NFmin increases with increasing frequency.
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