A low-power K-band CMOS UWB radar transceiver IC for short range detection

Author

Lee, Sungeun ; Kong, Sunwoo ; Kim, Choul-Young ; Hong, Songcheol

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea

fYear

2012

fDate

17-19 June 2012

Firstpage

503

Lastpage

506

Abstract

This paper presents a low power UWB radar transceiver IC, which is used to make a radar system with precise range accuracy. The range accuracy is allowed by a variable delay circuit which can control the delay by 5 ps resolution. The detecting range of the transceiver is from 0.15 m to 8.4 m. The measurement results show that the maximum error is 3.75 mm. The circuit is implemented in a 0.13 μm CMOS process with the die area of 1.28 × 1.07 mm². The total power consumption of the core circuit is 6.89 mA with the supply voltage of 1.5 V.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; delay circuits; field effect MMIC; low-power electronics; radar detection; radio transceivers; ultra wideband radar; CMOS process; current 6.89 mA; distance 0.15 m to 8.4 m; low-power K-band CMOS UWB radar transceiver IC; radar system; short range detection; size 0.13 mum; time 5 ps; total power consumption; variable delay circuit; voltage 1.5 V; Accuracy; Delay; Mixers; Oscillators; Receivers; Transceivers; Ultra wideband radar; UWB; merged LNA and mixer; pulsed oscillator; radar; variable delay circuit;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Montreal, QC

ISSN

1529-2517

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0413-9

Electronic_ISBN

1529-2517

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.2012.6242332

Filename

6242332