A 43.5mW 77GHz receiver front-end in 65nm CMOS suitable for FM-CW Automotive Radar

Author

Berenguer, Roc ; Liu, Gui ; Akhiyat, Abe ; Kamtikar, K. ; Xu, Yang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Illinois Inst. of Technol., Chicago, IL, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

19-22 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A low power mmW receiver front-end, suitable for a FM-CW Automotive Radar has been implemented using a 1P6M 65nm RFCMOS process. It has been designed using a direct conversion architecture. The input and interstage impedance matching networks have been implemented using Multi-layer Coplanar Wave guide (MCPW) based inductors. MCPW lines can realize small inductance values with high quality factor at mmW frequencies, improving gain, noise figure and power consumption performance of the receiver. It is shown that by adjusting the ground spacing and conductor width of the MCPW, an optimized 52pH inductor can achieve a quality factor of 37 at 77GHz. The fabricated front-end exhibits a maximum voltage gain of 15dB over the baseband and presents a LNA noise figure of 7dB which makes it suitable for next generation of collision avoidance systems. The achieved power consumption of the receiver front-end is only 43.5mW from a 1.5V voltage supply.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; CW radar; FM radar; coplanar waveguides; impedance matching; road vehicle radar; FM-CW automotive radar; RFCMOS; collision avoidance system; conductor width; direct conversion architecture; frequency 77 GHz; gain 15 dB; ground spacing; interstage impedance matching network; multilayer coplanar wave guide based inductor; power 43.5 mW; receiver front-end; size 65 nm; voltage 1.5 V; CMOS integrated circuits; Gain; Inductors; Metals; Noise; Q factor; Receivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

ISSN

0886-5930

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5758-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CICC.2010.5617449

Filename

5617449