Electronic industries always drive to add more functionalities to the devices. Tunability and compactness have become thrust parameters for the microelectronic researchers. In wireless communication, capacitor and inductor are the most significant reactive components for frequency selection. Out of these two reactive components, inductor occupies significant size of entire chip area. As a result, any circuit containing passive inductor such as voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), low-noise amplifier (LNA), filter, and power dividers consume wider chip size. To meet the requirement of microelectronics industries, passive components have been replaced with active ones. In this chapter, passive inductor has been substituted with CMOS based active inductor.
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