A fundamental frequency 143-152 GHz radar transceiver with built-in calibration and self-test

Technical Digest - IEEE Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Symposium, CSIC

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Sarkas, Ioannis ^a   Girma, Mekdes Gebresilassie ^b   Hasch, Juergen ^b   Zwick, Thomas ^c   Voinigescu, Sorin P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ROBERT BOSCH GMBH   (Germany)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

140 GHz; calibration; mm wave; Self test; transceiver

Indexed keywords

140 GHZ; ANALOG FRONT-END; ANTENNA PORTS; BUILT-IN CALIBRATION; FREQUENCY PLAN; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; HETERODYNE ARCHITECTURE; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; MM-WAVE; OUTPUT POWER; POWER SUPPLY; PRODUCTION TESTING; RADAR TRANSCEIVERS; SELF-TEST; SIGE BICMOS TECHNOLOGY; TWO CHANNEL;

BICMOS TECHNOLOGY; CALIBRATION; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RADAR; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; TRANSCEIVERS;

BUILT-IN SELF TEST;

EID: 84871146769     PISSN: 15508781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSICS.2012.6340072     Document Type: Conference Paper

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