Am integrated SiGe-BiCMOS low noise transmitter chip with a frequency divider chain for 77 GHz applications

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作者
Ghazinour, Akbar [1 ]
Wennekers, Peter [1 ]
Reuter, Ralf [1 ]
Yi, Yin [1 ]
Li, Hao [1 ]
Boehm, Thomas [1 ]
Jahn, Danny [1 ]
机构
[1] EMEA, TSO, RF IF Innovat Ctr, Schatzbogen 7, D-81829 Munich, Germany
关键词
transmitter; VCO; frequency divider; 77; GHz; SiGe-BiCMOS; 77 GHz FMCW radar system;
D O I
10.1109/EMICC.2006.282785
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
This paper presents a low noise transmitter chip for a 77GRz FMCW radar system being comprised of push-pull voltage controlled oscillator with an output buffer, a frequency divider chain and a peak-to-peak detector. The measurements show an output power of approximately 11 dBm at each of the two differential 5092 loads over a wide tuning range. The measured phase noise is about -85 dBc/Hz at 100 KHz offset frequency. The circuit has been implemented in a Freescale Semiconductor 0.18 mu m SiGe-BiCMOS technology. SiGe-HBTs with a typical. p ft / fmax of 200GHz / 205GHz are used as active devices.
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