22-29GHz CMOS Pulse Generator for Ultra-Wideband Radar Application

Author

Fujishima, Minoru ; Badalawa, Wasanthamala ; Öncü, Ahmet ; Wang, Tong

Author_Institution

Sch. of Frontier Sci., Tokyo Univ., Kashiwa

fYear

2006

fDate

Sept. 2006

Firstpage

279

Lastpage

282

Abstract

The pseudo-millimeter-wave ultra-wideband (UWB) is attractive for applications in short-range automotive radar systems using 22 to 29GHz in order to realize road safety and intelligent transportation. Although CMOS is suitable for the short-range radar since processing units can be implemented in the same chip with the UWB front-end building block, it is difficult to operate CMOS pulse generators at such a high frequency. To realize the pseudo-millimeter-wave band using CMOS, the paper have proposed a new pulse generator consisting of a series of delay cells and edge combiners with waveform shaping. As a result of measurement using 90nm CMOS technology, 1Gbps/bit pulses are successfully generated with a power consumption of 1.4mW at a supply voltage of 0.91V. This result is the key technology for a one-chip short-range radar system

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; automotive electronics; microwave integrated circuits; pulse generators; road safety; ultra wideband radar; 0.91 V; 1.4 mW; 22 to 29 GHz; 90 nm; CMOS pulse generator; delay cells; edge combiners; pseudo-millimeter-wave; short-range radar; ultrawideband radar application; waveform shaping; Automotive engineering; CMOS process; CMOS technology; Intelligent transportation systems; Pulse generation; Pulse measurements; Radar applications; Road safety; Ultra wideband radar; Ultra wideband technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2006. ESSCIRC 2006. Proceedings of the 32nd European

Conference_Location

Montreux

ISSN

1930-8833

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0303-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ESSCIR.2006.307585

Filename

4099758