A measurement based distributed low frequency noise HEMT model: application to design of millimeter wave automotive radar chip sets

Author

Laloue, A. ; Lyoubi, A. ; Camiade, M. ; Nallatamby, J.C. ; Valenza, M. ; Prigent, M. ; Obregon, J.

Author_Institution

IRCOM, CNRS, Brive, France

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

20-24 May 2001

Firstpage

423

Abstract

A fully measurement based extraction procedure of a distributed low-frequency nonlinear noise model of a PHEMT is proposed. This model describes accurately the distributed nature under the device gate which allows a good noise behavior prediction in nonlinear circuits. It is used to simulate successfully noise characteristics of MMICs for FMCW automotive radar at 77 GHz. The simulated and experimental results on two different source-chips: a VCO and DRO have been compared and we demonstrate the accuracy of the noise model which results in being independent of the application.

Keywords

CW radar; FM radar; HEMT integrated circuits; MMIC oscillators; dielectric resonator oscillators; electric noise measurement; equivalent circuits; field effect MIMIC; high electron mobility transistors; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit modelling; millimetre wave field effect transistors; millimetre wave oscillators; radar equipment; road vehicle radar; semiconductor device measurement; semiconductor device models; semiconductor device noise; voltage-controlled oscillators; 77 GHz; DRO; EHF; FMCW automotive radar; MIMIC noise characteristics; MM-wave automotive radar chip sets; PHEMT model; VCO; distributed LF noise HEMT model; low frequency noise; measurement based extraction procedure; measurement-based HEMT model; millimeter wave chip sets; nonlinear noise model; Circuit noise; Circuit simulation; Frequency measurement; HEMTs; Low-frequency noise; MMICs; Noise measurement; Nonlinear circuits; PHEMTs; Predictive models;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 2001 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ, USA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6538-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2001.966921

Filename

966921