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This paper presents a single-chip automotive FMCW radar with integrated mm-wave and digital processing. The chip includes reconfigurable high-performance hardware for flexible waveform generation, interference mitigation, FFT, data compression, target detection and security acceleration, as well as a 76-81GHz FMCW transceiver, programmable 360MHz digital signal processor (DSP) and 300MHz microcont...Show More
Millimeterwave (mm-Wave) radar sensors operating in the 76-to-81 GHz band are a key component of advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) for enhanced automotive safety. The recent entry of CMOS solutions in this space has accelerated development of multi-mode Radars that can support long, medium and short-range applications [1–3]. As ADAS applications evolve to support higher levels of autonomy,...Show More
This paper proposes architectures to comprehensively monitor the functionality of a 76-to-81GHz Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar front end, for safety critical automotive applications. These on-chip monitors periodically measure critical performance parameters and internal voltages of the radar transmitters (TX), receivers (RX) and local oscillator (LO), to detect failures in the f...Show More
Radar is a key sensing technology for advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous vehicles due to its strong detection capability, long range, and robustness to environmental variations such as inclement weather and lighting extremes. As these radars demonstrate increased levels of integration and performance [1,3], it is desired to have a single multimode radar transceiver that can address ...Show More
This paper presents an ultra low power reconfigurable, multi-standard (IEEE802.15.4, BLE, 5Mbps proprietary) ISM2.4GHz band transceiver compliant to FCC, ETSI class 2 and ARIB regulations. It uses a DPLL with counter based area and power efficient re-circulating TDC, current reuse low area DCO, dynamic divider, class-AB PA, and fully integrated LDOs. The RX is reconfigurable between zero-IF/low-IF...Show More
This paper presents an energy efficient transmitter for multi-standard applications (IEEE802.15.4, BLE, 5Mbps) in ISM2.4GHz band. It incorporates a fully digital PLL with two point modulation to achieve upto 5Mbps data rate at 9.5mW power consumption (including all power management blocks) at 0dBm output power, leading to 1.9nJ/b efficiency. The proposed digital PLL uses a counter based area and p...Show More
This paper discusses novel architectures and circuit techniques for DPLLs. These include: methods to have a wide temperature range in the digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) for ring-oscillator based DPLLs, re-circulating time to digital converter (TDC) architecture to support a large input phase error range, efficient, modular, divider architectures that provide 50% output duty cycle, while all...Show More