A fully-monolithic SiGe-BiCMOS transceiver chip for 24 GHz applications

Author

Ghazinour, Akbar ; Wennekers, Peter ; Schmidt, Jens ; Yi, Yin ; Reuter, Ralf ; Teplik, Jim

Author_Institution

Digital DNA Labs.-Eur., Motorola Inc., Berlin, Germany

fYear

2003

fDate

28-30 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

181

Lastpage

184

Abstract

This paper presents the design of a VCO and a frequency divider integrated together with a phase-frequency detector and a mixer on one transceiver chip for a 24GHz FM-CW radar system. The VCO is a differential varactor-tuned microstrip oscillator with 1.25GHz tuning frequency, which delivers a flat output power of 7dBm at each of the two differential 50Ω loads over the entire frequency range. Additional differential RF-outputs drive the inputs of the receiver circuits, a frequency divider with a division ratio of 32 and a single-balanced-mixer. The transmitter circuit has been fully integrated in the Motorola production 0.35μm SiGe-BiCMOS technology.

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; CW radar; FM radar; frequency dividers; integrated circuit design; mixers (circuits); silicon compounds; transceivers; voltage-controlled oscillators; 0.35 micron; 1.25 GHz; 24 GHz; 50 ohms; FM-CW radar system; Motorola; SiGe; VCO; differential varactor-tuned microstrip oscillator; frequency divider; fully-monolithic BiCMOS transceiver chip; phase-frequency detector; receiver circuits; single-balanced-mixer; transmitter circuit; tuning frequency; voltage-controlled oscillator; BiCMOS integrated circuits; CW radar; FM radar; Frequency conversion; Integrated circuit design; Mixers; Silicon compounds; Transceivers; Voltage controlled oscillators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting, 2003. Proceedings of the

ISSN

1088-9299

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7800-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BIPOL.2003.1274962

Filename

1274962