\begin{table}%t13 \caption{\label{tab13}Principal requirements and design solutions in LFI.} %\centering \par \begin{tabular}{ll} \hline\hline\noalign{\smallskip} Requirement/ \\ Constraint & Design solution \\ \hline High sensitivity&Cryogenically cooled ($\sim$20~K) HEMT amplifiers. \\ Low residual $1/f$, immunity from receiver systematics&Pseudo-correlation differential design. Cryogenic reference load ($\sim$4~K). Offset \\ & removal by gain modulation factor in post-processing. Fast switching (4~KHz) \\ & of sky and reference signal to suppress backend $1/f$~noise. \\ Single telescope&``Internal'' reference load. \\ Modularity, cryo testing.&Phase switch in frontend modules. \\ Low power dissipation at the 20~K stage.&Two amplification stages (cold frontend, warm backend). Low loss and thermal \\ & conductivity interconnecting waveguides. \\ Waveguide mechanical routing.&Phase switch and second hybrid in the frontend (avoids need of phase-matched \\ & waveguides.) \\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{table}