60 GHz industrial radar systems in silicon-germanium technology

Author

Agethen, R. ; PourMousavi, M. ; Forstner, Hans Peter ; Wojnowski, M. ; Pressel, K. ; Weigel, Robert ; Kissinger, Dietmar

Author_Institution

Inst. for Electron. Eng., Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

fYear

2013

fDate

2-7 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

This paper presents a fully integrated 60GHz SiGe transceiver for industrial radar applications. The transceiver is packaged in an eWLB technology which allowes for direct embedding of two dipole antennas in the package. The compact transceiver frontend has been evaluated in an FMCW radar setup. The transceiver features a wide tunable operating range and is comprised of a vector modulator and a homodyne IQ receiver. The overall transceiver MMIC has a maximum output power of 3 dBm and an overall power consumption of less then 1 W. The directivity of the embedded antenna is 9dBi and shows an operating bandwidth of 5 GHz.

Keywords

CW radar; FM radar; Ge-Si alloys; MMIC; ball grid arrays; dipole antennas; millimetre wave radar; modulators; radio transceivers; wafer level packaging; FMCW radar setup; SiGe; SiGe transceiver; bandwidth 5 GHz; compact transceiver frontend; dipole antennas; eWLB technology; frequency 60 GHz; homodyne IQ receiver; industrial radar applications; silicon-germanium technology; transceiver MMIC; vector modulator; Bandwidth; Dipole antennas; Phase locked loops; Radar measurements; Transceivers; 60 GHz; SiGe; eWLB; millimeter wave; radar; transceiver;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest (IMS), 2013 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6177-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2013.6697731

Filename

6697731