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A Fully-Integrated Low Power K-band Radar Transceiver in 130nm CMOS Technology

  • Kim, Seong-Kyun (College of Information & Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Cui, Chenglin (College of Information & Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Kim, Byung-Sung (College of Information & Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Kim, SoYoung (College of Information & Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
  • Received : 2012.05.11
  • Published : 2012.12.31
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Abstract

A fully-integrated low power K-band radar transceiver in 130 nm CMOS process is presented. It consists of a low-noise amplifier (LNA), a down-conversion mixer, a power amplifier (PA), and a frequency synthesizer with injection locked buffer for driving mixer and PA. The receiver front-end provides a conversion gain of 19 dB. The LNA achieves a power gain of 15 dB and noise figure of 5.4 dB, and the PA has an output power of 9 dBm. The phase noise of VCO is -90 dBc/Hz at 1-MHz offset. The total dc power dissipation of the transceiver is 142 mW and the size of the chip is only $1.2{\times}1.4mm^2$.

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