1. If cascaded stages having only second-order nonlinearity can yield a finite IP3 .

In the below
casacde identical common source stages consider each transistor operates in saturation and follows
ideal square law behaviour. Determine IP3 of the cascasde.

2. Determine the noise figures of each circuit shown below.

3. Prove that the channel thermal noise of a MOSFET can be referred to the gate as a voltage given
by 4kT/gm.
4.

5. The receiver system shown in Fig. below is used for communication systems. The 1-dB
compression point occurs at the output IF power of 20 dBm. At room temperature, calculate (a) the

overall system gain or loss in decibels, (b) the overall noise figure in decibels, (c) the minimum
detectable signal in milliwatts at the input RF port, and (d) the dynamic range in decibels.