CMOS - Based Digital Step Attenuator Designs

This article describes the general design mythology of RF CMOS Attenuators covering Step, pi, T and Bridged Circuits. It also goes over attenuator optimization.

By Ray Baker

Attenuator Design Tutorial

Good Tutorial on Attenuator Design with Derivations, Circuits, Simulations and Examples for pi Attenuators, Tee – Attenuators, Bridged T – Attenuators for Narrowband and Broadband operation.

From www.rfic.co.uk

Analysis and Design of RF CMOS Attenuators

This ppt goes over the design RF CMOS Attenuators, covering the following topics: Insertion Loss, Maximum Attenuation, Frequency Limitations, Distortion Analysis, Linearity Improvements and performance comparison.

By Hakan Dogan, Robert G. Meyer and Ali M. Niknejad from Berkeley Wireless Research Center

Attenuators

A lot of very useful information on Attenuators

from Microwaves101

High Frequency PIN diode Attenuators

This Article goes over the various configuration of PIN diode Attenuators: Shunt Mounted Reflective Attenuator, Balanced Attenuator, Arrays Attenuators, pi Attenuators, T pad attenuators and more…

Application Note from Herley

Digital step attenuators offer precision and linearity

A RF CMOS digital step attenuators that offer an unprecedented combination of accuracy, linearity, programmability, ESD tolerance and wide bandwidth in aminiature  surface-mount package.

By Radha Krishna Settypublished in RF Design Magazine

Resistive Attenuator Design

A List of formulas for designing resistive Attenuators