A dual band FMCW radar receiver with integrated active balun and baseband AGC loop

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Abstract

This work presents the design of a dual band frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar receiver (RX) at the 2.4 and 5.8 GHz industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) bands. The designed low noise amplifier (LNA) has a single ended 50 Ω input stage followed by an active balanced-to-unbalanced (balun) stage. The radio frequency (RF) signal is then down-converted to a low intermediate frequency (IF) by a multi-tanh Gilbert cell mixer whose local oscillator (LO) port is driven by an integrated fractional-N phase locked loop (Frac-N PLL). After down-conversion, the resulting IF signal is low pass filtered and amplified by a baseband variable gain amplifier (VGA). Fabricated on an IBM 0.18 μm BiCMOS process, the measured RX performance is in good agreement with simulations achieving a measured maximum conversion gain (CG) of 82.0 and 77.2 dB and a noise figure (NF) of 7.3 and 8.0 dB at the 2.4 and 5.8 GHz bands respectively. The receiver consumes 22.3 mA from a 3 V supply and occupies a chip area of 0.32 mm2. When used as a primary FMCW radar transceiver (TRX), the designed chip achieves a ranging precision of 0.30 and 0.31 mm at the 2.4 and 5.8 GHz bands respectively. To the best of the author's knowledge, this dual band FMCW radar TRX has the highest level of integration reported in the literature.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2017 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
PublisherIEEE Xplore
Pages1-4
Number of pages4
ISBN (electronic)978-1-4673-6853-7
ISBN (print)978-1-5090-1427-9
Publication statusPublished - 31 May 2017
Peer-reviewedYes

Publication series

SeriesIEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
ISSN0271-4302

Conference

TitleIEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems 2017
Abbreviated titleISCAS 2017
Conference number50
Duration28 - 31 May 2017
CityBaltimore
CountryUnited States of America

External IDs

Scopus 85027560856

Keywords

Keywords

  • Radar, Noise measurement, Radio frequency, Gain, Transmission line measurements, Mixers