A fully integrated 77-GHz Radar Transmitter based on a Low Phase-Noise 19.25-GHz Fundamental VCO

被引:9
作者
Starzer, Florian [1 ]
Fischer, Alexander [1 ]
Forstner, Hans Peter [2 ]
Knapp, Herbert [2 ]
Wiesinger, Friedrich [3 ]
Stelzer, Andreas [1 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Johannes Kepler Univ Linz, Christian Doppler Lab Integrated Radar Sensors, Altenberger Str 69, A-4040 Linz, Austria
[2] Infineon Technol AG, D-85579 Neubiberg, Germany
[3] DICE GmbH & Co KG, A-4040 Linz, Austria
[4] Johannes Kepler Univ Linz, Inst Commun & RF Syst, A-4040 Linz, Austria
来源
2010 IEEE BIPOLAR/BICMOS CIRCUITS AND TECHNOLOGY MEETING (BCTM) | 2010年
关键词
Bipolar transistor oscillators; Voltage controlled oscillators; Frequency conversion; Frequency synthesizers; Phase locked loops; CW radar; TRANSCEIVER;
D O I
10.1109/BIPOL.2010.5667953
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
A 77-GHz automotive radar transmitter is presented. The transmitter is based on a 19.25-GHz Colpitts voltage controlled oscillator, that feeds two cascaded frequency doubler stages. In a following medium power amplifier (MPA) the signal recovers after frequency transformation. Finally a power amplifier (PA) adds 6 dB to the power level after the MPA. In addition, an emitter follower stage connected to the oscillators output drives a switchable divide-by-16/32 stage realized in emitter-coupled-logic (ECL).
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页码:65 / 68
页数:4
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