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A 77-GHz 8RX3TX Transceiver for 250-m Long-Range Automotive Radar in 40-nm CMOS Technology

2021; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Volume: 56; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/jssc.2021.3050306

ISSN

1558-173X

Autores

Tomoyuki Arai, Tatsunori Usugi, Tomotoshi Murakami, Shuya Kishimoto, Yoshiyuki Utagawa, Masato Kohtani, Ikuma Ando, Kazuhiro Matsunaga, Chihiro Arai, S. Yamaura,

Tópico(s)

Electromagnetic Compatibility and Measurements

Resumo

An automotive 77-GHz long-range radar (LRR) with an 8-channel receiver (RX) and a 3-channel transmitter (TX) in 40-nm CMOS technology is presented. It integrates a 38.5-GHz phase-locked loop (PLL), a transmitter power detector (DET) and power calibration loop, a crystal oscillator (XO), built-in-self-test (BIST) circuits, an SRAM, an eFuse, a temperature compensation calibration loop with a lookup table (LUT) and a temperature sensor, a serial peripheral interface (SPI), and a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) control logic. The receiver shows a noise figure (NF) of 8.7 dB and input-referred 1-dB compression point (IP1-dB) of -7.4 dBm. The NF and IP1-dB under the worst conditions are 14 dB and -10 dBm, respectively. The transmitter shows output power of 14.1 dBm and phase noise of -116 dBc/Hz at a 12.5-MHz offset frequency, which corresponds to the frequency of 250-m objects for the fast-chirp frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar. The proposed radar module utilizes two transmitter channels for horizontal detection. A 2 × 8 time-division-multiplexing MIMO (TDM-MIMO) technique provides a detection range of 250 m.

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