A digital ultra-fast acquisition linear frequency modulated PLL for mm-Wave FMCW radars

2009 IEEE International Symposium on Radio-Frequency Integration Technology, RFIT 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 347-350

  Wu, Wanghua ^a   Long, John R ^a   Staszewski, Robert Bogdan ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Digital frequency synthesizer; Dynamic loop bandwidth control; Fast acquisition; FMCW radar; Linear frequency modulation; Phase locked loop

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CHIRP MODULATION; CONTINUOUS WAVE RADAR; FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; MILLIMETER WAVES; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; RADIO WAVES;

DIGITAL FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZER; DYNAMIC LOOPS; FAST ACQUISITION; FMCW RADAR; LINEAR FREQUENCY MODULATION;

FREQUENCY MODULATION;

EID: 77951466291     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFIT.2009.5383695     Document Type: Conference Paper

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