A CMOS 22-29GHz Receiver Front-End for UWB Automotive Pulse-Radars

Author

Jain, Vipul ; Sundararaman, Sriramkumar ; Heydari, Payam

Author_Institution

California Univ., Irvine

fYear

2007

fDate

16-19 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

757

Lastpage

760

Abstract

The design of a CMOS 22-29 GHz pulse-radar receiver (RX) front-end for ultra-wideband (UWB) automotive radar sensors is presented. Fabricated in a 0.18 mum CMOS process, the 3 mm² RX chip achieves a conversion gain of 35-38.1 dB, noise figure of 5.5-7.4 dB and input return loss less than -14.5 dB in the 22-29 GHz band. The phase noise of the constituent QVCO is -107 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset from a center frequency of 26.5 GHz. The total dc power dissipation of the RX including LO/output buffers is 131 mW.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; MMIC oscillators; radar receivers; road vehicle radar; ultra wideband radar; voltage-controlled oscillators; CMOS; LO/output buffers; QVCO; RX chip; UWB automotive pulse-radars; frequency 22 GHz to 29 GHz; gain 35 dB to 38.1 dB; noise figure 5.5 dB to 7.4 dB; phase noise; power 131 mW; receiver front-end; total dc power dissipation; Automotive engineering; Baseband; CMOS integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Frequency; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse circuits; Radar detection; Signal resolution; Ultra wideband radar; CMOS integrated circuits; LNA; direct-conversion receiver; pulse radar; quadrature VCO; ultra-wideband (UWB);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 2007. CICC '07. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1623-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1623-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CICC.2007.4405840

Filename

4405840