A 71–76 GHz wideband receiver front-end for phased array applications in 0.13 μm SiGe BiCMOS technology
| Autor: | Dristy Parveg, Jan-Erik Holmberg, Kari Halonen, Mikko Varonen, Jan Saijets, Mikko Kantanen, Raju Ahamed |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Phase shifter
Phased array SiGe Millimeter-wave 02 engineering and technology BiCMOS Noise figure Transformer balun 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Phased arrays Wideband Physics business.industry Amplifier 020208 electrical & electronic engineering Buffer amplifier Electrical engineering 020206 networking & telecommunications Switch OtaNano Surfaces Coatings and Films Heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) PALNA LNA Hardware and Architecture MMIC Signal Processing Cascode business Phase shift module |
| Zdroj: | Ahamed, R, Varonen, M, Holmberg, J, Parveg, D, Kantanen, M, Saijets, J & Halonen, K A I 2019, ' A 71–76 GHz wideband receiver front-end for phased array applications in 0.13 μm SiGe BiCMOS technology ', Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, vol. 98, no. 3, pp. 465-476 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10470-018-1268-4 |
| ISSN: | 1573-1979 0925-1030 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10470-018-1268-4 |
| Popis: | This paper presents the design of a millimeter-wave wideband receiver front-end in a 0.13 $$\upmu$$ m SiGe BiCMOS technology for phased array applications. The receiver front-end is suitable for a phased array time-division duplexing communication system where both the transmitter and the receiver share the same antenna. The monolithic microwave integrated circuit front-end comprises of quarter-wave shunt switches, a low-noise amplifier (LNA), an active phase shifter and a buffer amplifier. The quarter-wave shunt switch is designed using reverse-saturated SiGe HBTs. The transformer-based LNA utilizes a common-emitter amplifier at the first stage and a cascode amplifier at the second stage to exploit the advantages of both common-emitter and cascode topologies. The designed switch is incorporated in the input matching network of the LNA. The active phase shifter consists of variable gain amplifiers driven by a polyphase filter-based quadrature generator. The receiver front-end achieves a measured gain of 18.5 dB and a noise figure of 9 dB with a 3 dB bandwidth of 23 GHz from 56 to 79 GHz. The receiver phase can be tuned continuously from 0 $$^{\circ }$$ to 360 $$^{\circ }$$ . An output referred 1-dB compression point of $$-$$ 7.4 dBm is achieved at 70 GHz. The receiver consumes 116 mW of DC power and occupies a core area of $$1800\,\upmu {\text {m}} \times 475\,\upmu {\text {m}}$$ . |
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