A 77-GHz CMOS FMCW Frequency Synthesizer With Reconfigurable Chirps

作者：Luo Tang Nian^*; Wu Chi Hung Evelyn; Chen Yi Jan Emery

来源：IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 2013, 61(7): 2641-2647.

DOI：10.1109/TMTT.2013.2264685

• Automotive radar
• frequency synthesizer
• interference
• millimeter wave (MMW)
• phase-locked loop (PLL)
• transceiver

This paper presents a 77-GHz CMOS frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) frequency synthesizer with the capability of reconfigurable chirps. The frequency-sweep range and sweep time of the chirp signals can be reconfigured every cycle such that the frequency-hopping random chirp signal can be realized for an FMCW radar transceiver. The frequency synthesizer adopts the fractional-N phase-locked-loop technique and is fully integrated in TSMC 65-nm digital CMOS technology. The silicon area of the synthesizer is 0.65 mm x 0.45 mm and it consumes 51.3 mW of power. The measured output phase noise of the synthesizer is -85.1 dBc/Hz at 1-MHz offset and the root-mean-square modulation frequency error is smaller than 73 kHz.

• 出版日期2013-7
• 单位中国科学院电工研究所