Doppler radar motion sensor with CMOS digital DC-tuning VGA and inverter-based sigma-delta modulator

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2666-2674

  Yang, Yihong ^a   Gu, Changzhan ^a   Li, Yiran ^a   Gale, Richard ^a   Li, Changzhi ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

AC coupling; dc coupling; dc offset; dc tuning; displacement measurement; Doppler radar; inverter; low power; low voltage; sigma delta modulator; variable gain amplifier (VGA).

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER RADAR;

AC COUPLING; DC COUPLING; DC OFFSETS; DC TUNING; INVERTER; LOW POWER; LOW VOLTAGES; SIGMA DELTA MODULATOR; VARIABLE GAIN AMPLIFIERS;

DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84908018162     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2014.2313032     Document Type: Article

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