Design of an analog correlator for 22-29GHz UWB vehicular radar system using improved high gain multiplier architecture

Author

Karandikar, Niranjan ; Jung, Sungyong ; Sung Chul Lee ; Gui, Ping ; Joo, Youngjoong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA

fYear

2010

Firstpage

930

Lastpage

933

Abstract

An analog correlator for ultra-wideband (UWB) vehicular short-range radars (V-SRR) is presented. The correlator is designed for operation at 22-29GHz using the IBM 90nm RFCMOS process. The correlator consists of a multiplier, a Gm-C integrator, and a post amplifier. A novel four-quadrant transconductance multiplier (FQTM) is proposed to achieve high gain, and a Gm-C integrator is designed to improve the holding time of the correlator. Simulations show that the proposed FQTM has 9.54dB gain increase, and the correlator achieves 2.3ns of holding time and uses 15 mW of power.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; amplifiers; integrating circuits; multiplying circuits; ultra wideband radar; Gm-C integrator; RFCMOS process; UWB vehicular radar system; analog correlator; four-quadrant transconductance multiplier; frequency 22 GHz to 29 GHz; gain 9.54 dB; high gain multiplier architecture; post amplifier; power 15 mW; size 90 nm; time 2.3 ns; CMOS technology; Correlators; FCC; Frequency; Ground penetrating radar; Radio spectrum management; Signal generators; Signal to noise ratio; Ultra wideband radar; Ultra wideband technology; Analog correlator; UWB; integrator; multipler;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), 2010 53rd IEEE International Midwest Symposium on

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

ISSN

1548-3746

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7771-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSCAS.2010.5548782

Filename

5548782