FMCW radar receiver front-end design

Title

FMCW radar receiver front-end design

 Author

Mao, Y.

Contributor

De Vreede, L. (mentor)
Long, J. (mentor)
Vaucher, C. (mentor)

Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

 Date

2009-02-28

 Abstract

The main focus of this thesis is the design a receiver frontend for FMCW radar applications. In these systems, the increasing requirements on detection resolution,points towards the use of higher frequencies. In view of this, frequencies at W-band are very attractive due to the otential of high spatial resolution, while chip size and antennas can be made more compact. However, to realize such a high performance FMCW radar system, a W-band high bandwidth LNA-mixer chain needs to be developed in a high-end integration technology. Key design parameters are low noise, high conversion gain and linearity, and above all a large operating bandwidth. Due to the application requirements in this project, high isolation between received signal and the down converting LO signal needs to be established. System considerations have been given in support of understanding and defining the LNA-mixer specifications.

 Subject

94ghz
direct conversion architecture
lna mixer chain

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 Publisher

TU Delft, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Microelectronics

 Part of collection

Student theses

 Document type

master thesis

 Rights

(c) 2009 Mao, Y.
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