W-band monolithic single sideband transceiver for automotive radar applications

Author

Chang, K.W. ; Wang, H. ; Dow, G.S. ; Biedenbender, M. ; Chen, T.H. ; Lo, D.C.W. ; Allen, B.R.

Author_Institution

Electron. & Technol. Div., TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

16-19 Oct. 1994

Firstpage

84

Lastpage

87

Abstract

This paper reports the first W-band monolithic single sideband FMCW transceiver with direct digital synthesizer modulation. This heterodyne transceiver improves the system sensitivity over the previously reported homodyne approach. The complete transceiver has better than 12-dB suppression of the image sideband with a nominal LO drive of 9 dBm and is estimated to exhibit a 11-dB noise figure for IF as low as 1 MHz. This MMIC chip was fabricated using TRW production line process and is suitable for automotive radar applications.

Keywords

CW radar; FM radar; HEMT integrated circuits; automotive electronics; direct digital synthesis; field effect MIMIC; radar equipment; transceivers; 11 dB; 90 to 95 GHz; EHF; FMCW transceiver; MIMIC; MM-wave IC; MMIC chip; TRW production line process; W-band; automotive radar applications; direct digital synthesizer modulation; heterodyne transceiver; monolithic SSB transceiver; single sideband transceiver; Automotive engineering; Digital signal processing; MMICs; Noise figure; Radar antennas; Radar applications; Road safety; Space technology; Synthesizers; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Gallium Arsenide Integrated Circuit (GaAs IC) Symposium, 1994. Technical Digest 1994., 16th Annual

Conference_Location

Phildelphia, PA, USA

ISSN

1064-7775

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1975-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GAAS.1994.636931

Filename

636931