A single-chip dual-band 22-29-GHz/77-81-GHz BiCMOS transceiver for automotive radars

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3469-3485

  Jain, Vipul ^a,b   Tzeng, Fred ^a   Zhou, Lei ^a   Heydari, Payam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SaberTek Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

24 GHz; 77 GHz; 79 GHz; Automotive radar; Direct conversion receiver; Direct conversion transmitter; Dual band; Frequency conversion; Frequency synthesizers; Injection locked oscillators; Millimeter wave integrated circuits; Phase locked loops; Pulse generator; Pulsed radar

Indexed keywords

79 GHZ; AUTOMOTIVE RADAR; DIRECT CONVERSION; DIRECT CONVERSION RECEIVERS; DUAL-BAND; FREQUENCY CONVERSION; INJECTION LOCKED OSCILLATORS; MILLIMETER-WAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PULSED RADARS;

BICMOS TECHNOLOGY; FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS; HIGH FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; PHASE SHIFT; POWER AMPLIFIERS; PULSE GENERATORS; RADAR; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; TRANSCEIVERS; TRANSMITTERS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 72949098666     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2032583     Document Type: Conference Paper

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