Design broadband matching networks for a low noise amplifier (LNA). In an RF receiver front end, the LNA is commonly found immediately after the antenna or after the first bandpass filter that follows the antenna. Its position in the receiver chain ensures that it deals with weak signals that have significant noise content. As a result the LNA has to not only provide amplification to such signals but also minimize its own noise footprint on the amplified signal. In this example you will design an LNA to achieve the target gain and noise figure specifications over a specified bandwidth, using lumped LC elements. A direct-search based approach is used to arrive at the optimum element values in the input and output matching network.