Feasibility study and design of a low-cost system-on-a-chip microwave radiometer on silicon

Author

Fonte, Alessandro ; Zito, Domenico ; Neri, Bruno ; Alimenti, Federico

Author_Institution

Pisa Univ., Pisa

fYear

2007

fDate

4-8 June 2007

Firstpage

37

Lastpage

41

Abstract

A detailed system analysis of a novel low-cost system-on-a-chip (SoaC) passive microwave radiometer on silicon for civil and environmental safeguard applications is presented. Particularly, this paper focuses the opportunities offered by the latest advances silicon technology for realizing innovative integrated radiometer for temperature remote sensing and its application to the forest fire prevention. An accurate feasibility study of a SoaC radiometer on a standard CMOS process for the 13 GHz frequency range is reported. The potential of such a low-cost solution has been confirmed by the system analysis carried out by means of Ptolemy simulations.

Keywords

radiometers; remote sensing; silicon; system-on-chip; Ptolemy simulations; Si; SoaC passive microwave radiometer; SoaC radiometer; civil safeguard applications; environmental safeguard applications; forest fire prevention; innovative integrated radiometer; low-cost system-on-a-chip microwave radiometer; silicon technology; standard CMOS process; system analysis; temperature remote sensing; Analytical models; CMOS process; CMOS technology; Fires; Frequency; Microwave radiometry; Passive microwave remote sensing; Silicon; System-on-a-chip; Temperature sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Waveform Diversity and Design Conference, 2007. International

Conference_Location

Pisa

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1276-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1276-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WDDC.2007.4339375

Filename

4339375