SiGe technology and circuits for automotive radar applications

2011 IEEE 11th Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems, SiRF 2011 - Digest of Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 141-144

  Pacheco, Sergio ^a   Reuter, Ralf ^b   Trotta, Saverio ^b   Salle, Didier ^c   John, Jay ^a  

^a FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR INC   (United States)

^b Freescale Halbleiter Deutschland GmbH   (Germany)

^c Freescale Semiconducteurs France SAS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE RADAR APPLICATIONS; AUTOMOTIVE RADAR SYSTEM; RADAR DESIGN; SIGE DEVICES; SIGE TECHNOLOGY; SILICON TECHNOLOGIES; TRANSMITTER CIRCUITS;

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RADAR; RADAR SYSTEMS; RADIOFREQUENCY SPECTROSCOPY; SILICON ALLOYS;

MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 79952848960     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SIRF.2011.5719345     Document Type: Conference Paper

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