Ali M.T. Abuelma'atti and Ian Thayne, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland; Muhammad Taher Abuelma'atti, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Min

This paper presents a new compact and comprehensive design methodology for RF CMOS source degenerated cascode dual functionality low noise amplifier (LNA) and power amplifier (PA) for the IEEE 802.15.4 standard (commercially known as ZigBee). Due to the need to meet the far apart performance requirements of both the...