SiGe 77GHz automotive radar technology

Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1967-1970

  Huang, W M ^a   John, J P ^a   Braithwaite, S ^a   Kirchgessner, J ^a   Lim, I S ^a   Morgan, D ^a   Park, Y B ^a   Shams, S ^a   To, I ^a   Welch, P ^a   Reuter, R ^b   Li, H ^b   Ghazinour, A ^b   Wennekers, P ^b   Yin, Y ^b  

^a FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR INC   (United States)

^b Freescale Halbleiter Deutschland GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOGIC DESIGN; RADAR SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TRANSMITTERS;

LOW-COST SILICON TECHNOLOGY; RADAR DESIGN; TRANSMITTER CIRCUIT IMPLEMENTATIONS;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 34548817908     PISSN: 02714310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iscas.2007.378362     Document Type: Conference Paper

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