Reseach results and graduation

Well, the Prof said yesterday that I had done enough for my graduation this december! So I guess it is official, this december I should graduate with my Masters degree. But I am not done with school yet, since I promised my professor I would stay to get my Phd underneath him, I still have several more years to go. But the good news is, ya'll can call me "Master Tim" after December.

For my thesis, I designed an Ultra-wideband (UWB) CMOS Differential Low-Noise amplifier. UWB refers to the fact that my circuit will operate over a very large bandwidth (several Gigahertz). CMOS equals cheap for companies to build. The differential architecture should aid in removing common-mode noise (which is very very bad). And we want the amp to be low-noise (i.e. it doesn't contribute much noise to the signal) so that prospectus wireless receivers can be as sensitive as possible.

Here are some of my simulation results. I stare at these all day and wish they would get better. The first is my amplifier's gain versus frequency expressed in decibels. And the second is the noise figure versus frequency (lower is better).