A low-cost miniature 120GHz SiP FMCW/CW radar sensor with software linearization

Author

Yaoming Sun ; Marinkovic, M. ; Fischer, Georg ; Winkler, Wolfgang ; Debski, W. ; Beer, Sebastian ; Zwick, T. ; Girma, Mekdes Gebresilassie ; Hasch, Juergen ; Scheytt, C.J.

Author_Institution

IHP, Frankfurt Oder, Germany

fYear

2013

Firstpage

148

Lastpage

149

Abstract

This paper presents an integrated mixed-signal 120GHz FMCW/CW radar chipset in a 0.13μm SiGe BiCMOS technology. It features on-chip MMW built-in-self-test (BIST) circuits, a harmonic transceiver, software linearization (SWL) circuits and a digital interface. This chipset has been tested in a low-cost package, where the antennas are integrated. Above 100GHz, our transceiver has achieved state-ofthe-art integration level and receiver linearity, and DC power consumption.

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; CW radar; FM radar; Ge-Si alloys; millimetre wave antennas; semiconductor materials; system-in-package; BIST circuit; BiCMOS technology; DC power consumption; SWL circuits; antennas; digital interface; frequency 120 GHz; harmonic transceiver; integrated mixed-signal FMCW-CW radar chipset; low-cost miniature FMCW-CW radar sensor; low-cost package; on-chip MMW built-in-self-test circuits; receiver linearity; size 0.13 mum; software linearization circuits; system-in-package; transceiver; Microwave FET integrated circuits; Microwave antennas; Microwave circuits; Radar; Radar antennas; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers (ISSCC), 2013 IEEE International

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

0193-6530

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4515-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSCC.2013.6487676

Filename

6487676