High-Linearity 77-GHz SiGe Automotive Radar Front-Ends

Kissinger D (2009)


Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2009

Conference Proceedings Title: IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS)

Event location: Boston MA, USA

Abstract

The harsh automotive environment poses a series of challenging performance demands to integrated 77-GHz radar frontends. Besides a large temperature range of operation, sufficiently large output power of the transmitter and corresponding receiver sensitivity have to be guaranteed. The large dynamic range of the received signal additionally demands a highly linear behaviour of such receiver circuits. This presentation deals with the design of high-linearity integrated receiver frontends and its subcomponents for 77- GHz automotive radar applications based on high-performance SiGe technologies. These include low-noise amplifiers and down-conversion mixer circuits as well as fully integrated receiver frontends. The authors give insight to the design and measurement techniques of state-of-the-art highly linear 77-GHz radar building blocks. Different circuit architectures are investigated and the corresponding designs and performance parameters are presented.

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APA:

Kissinger, D. (2009). High-Linearity 77-GHz SiGe Automotive Radar Front-Ends. In IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS). Boston MA, USA.

MLA:

Kissinger, Dietmar. "High-Linearity 77-GHz SiGe Automotive Radar Front-Ends." Proceedings of the IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS), Boston MA, USA 2009.

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