160GHz pulsed transmitter with packaged antenna array in 65nm CMOS

Author

Rentala, V. ; Eunyoung Seok ; Ginsburg, Brian ; Sankaran, S. ; Ramaswamy, Srini ; Haroun, Baher

Author_Institution

Kilby Labs., Texas Instrum., Dallas, TX, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

12-14 June 2013

Abstract

This paper presents a 160GHz center frequency pulsed transmitter for short range radar applications. An array of four transmitters was implemented in a single chip with antennas implemented on the package. Each transmitter can be independently phase shifted, allowing transmit beamforming. The implemented transmitter is capable of producing pulses of 100ps wide (>20GHz RF bandwidth) with 160GHz carrier frequency. The measured effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP) is 14.5dBm for continuous wave operation. The entire chip consumes 1.4W from 1.2/1.4V supplies in a 65nm digital CMOS process.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; field effect MIMIC; millimetre wave antenna arrays; millimetre wave radar; CMOS process; CMOS technology; center frequency pulsed transmitter; frequency 160 GHz; packaged antenna array; power 1.4 mW; short range radar applications; size 65 nm; time 100 ps; voltage 1.2 V; voltage 1.4 V; Antenna measurements; Arrays; CMOS integrated circuits; Oscillators; Phase shifters; Transmission line measurements; Transmitters; CMOS; mm-wave; phased-array; radar; wireless;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

VLSI Circuits (VLSIC), 2013 Symposium on

Conference_Location

Kyoto

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5531-5

Type

conf

Filename

6578702