A compact low-power 24 GHz transceiver for radar applications in 0.13 µm CMOS

Author

Issakov, Vadim ; Tiebout, Marc ; Mertens, Koen ; Cao, Yiqun ; Thiede, Andreas ; Simburger, Werner ; Maurer, Linus

Author_Institution

Dept. of High-Freq. Electron., Univ. of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

9-11 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper presents a compact low-power transceiver for 24 GHz radar applications integrated in 0.13 μm CMOS technology. The high integration level includes a low-noise amplifier (LNA), two mixers, on-chip quadrature generation, a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), a power amplifier (PA) driver and frequency division by four at a record minimal area of 0.7 mm². The direct-conversion receiver offers a conversion gain of 12 dB and a DSB noise figure of 5.5 dB, whilst the transmitter provides an output power of -3 dBm with a phase noise of -101 dBc/Hz. The circuit consumes only 88 mW from a single 1.5 V supply.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; field effect MMIC; low-power electronics; radar equipment; transceivers; 0.13 μm CMOS technology; compact low power 24 GHz transceiver; frequency 24 GHz; frequency division; gain 12 dB; low noise amplifier; noise figure 5.5 dB; onchip quadrature generation; power 88 mW; power amplifier driver; radar applications; size 0.13 micron; voltage 1.5 V; voltage-controlled oscillator; CMOS technology; Driver circuits; Frequency conversion; High power amplifiers; Low-noise amplifiers; Mixers; Power generation; Radar applications; Transceivers; Voltage-controlled oscillators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwaves, Communications, Antennas and Electronics Systems, 2009. COMCAS 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tel Aviv

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3985-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMCAS.2009.5385966

Filename

5385966