Title :
GaAs ICs for 5 GHz microwave landing system front-end
Author :
De Gouy, J.L. ; Boutigny, P.H. ; Jean, P. ; Grancher, A.
Author_Institution :
Thomson-CSF-CNI, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Abstract :
GaAs application-specific IC (ASIC) design is considered as applicable to the full integration of the 5-GHz front-end of MLS (microwave landing system) equipment. All the different functions, such as amplifiers, switches, oscillators, and mixers, have been integrated, as well as digital functions needed for fractional divider frequency synthesis. The front-end was implemented as five GaAs chips on a 2 square inch hybrid. All the designed ASICs fully complied with specifications and allowed the equipment to run in a military environment. The results in terms of spectral purity were very satisfactory.<>
Keywords :
aircraft instrumentation; application specific integrated circuits; gallium arsenide; hybrid integrated circuits; microwave integrated circuits; microwave landing systems; military equipment; 5 GHz; ASIC; GaAs; MIC; MLS front-end; SHF; application-specific IC; digital functions; fractional divider frequency synthesis; hybrid IC; microwave landing system; military environment; spectral purity; Application specific integrated circuits; Frequency conversion; Frequency synthesizers; Gallium arsenide; Microwave devices; Microwave integrated circuits; Microwave oscillators; Military equipment; Multilevel systems; Switches;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Monolithic Circuits Symposium, 1992. Digest of Papers, IEEE 1992
Conference_Location :
Albuquerque, NM, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0677-5
DOI :
10.1109/MCS.1992.186033
