A 56.4-to-63.4 GHz multi-rate all-digital fractional-N PLL for FMCW radar applications in 65 nm CMOS

W Wu, RB Staszewski, JR Long - IEEE Journal of solid-state …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A mm-wave digital transmitter based on a 60 GHz all-digital phase-locked loop (ADPLL) with
wideband frequency modulation (FM) for FMCW radar applications is proposed. The …

State-of-the-art and future directions of high-performance all-digital frequency synthesis in nanometer CMOS

RB Staszewski - IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The past several years have successfully brought all-digital techniques to the RF frequency
synthesis, which could arguably be considered one of the last strong bastions of the …

DDS-based signal-generation architecture comparison for an imaging radar at 300 GHz

G Rubio-Cidre, A Badolato… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Submillimeter-wave imaging radars for standoff detection require broadband and fast-switch
signal-generation architectures in order to achieve a high-range-resolution and near-video …

Promise of a better position

G Vinci, S Lindner, F Barbon, R Weigel… - IEEE Microwave …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Industrial automation today is an essential technology underlying our modern society.
Advanced positioning and sensor feedback tasks in automation processes often require …

Passive circuit technologies for mm-wave wireless systems on silicon

JR Long, Y Zhao, W Wu, M Spirito… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The performance characteristics of transmission lines, silicon integrated waveguides,
tunable LC resonators and passive combiners/splitters and baluns are described in this …

High-resolution 60-GHz DCOs with reconfigurable distributed metal capacitors in passive resonators

W Wu, JR Long, RB Staszewski… - 2012 IEEE Radio …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mm-wave digitally-controlled oscillators (DCOs) with reconfigurable passive resonators are
proposed, which achieve wide tuning range (>; 10%) and fine frequency resolution (<; 1 …

Low power radar level gauge system with integrated microwave circuit

A Jirskog, M Kleman, LO Larsson - US Patent 9,395,229, 2016 - Google Patents
The present invention relates to a radar level gauge system comprising a signal propagation
device; a microwave signal source; a microwave signal source controller; a mixer configured …

Digital RF and digitally-assisted RF

RB Staszewski - Digitally-Assisted Analog and RF CMOS Circuit Design …, 2011 - Springer
One of the most important developments in the wireless industry within the last decade was
the digitization of RF circuitry. This was in response to the incredible advancements of the …

Technique for fast triangular chirp modulation in FMCW PLL

HG Choi, SH Lee, SH Cho - IEICE Electronics Express, 2022 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radars necessitate fast frequency
modulation. However, finite loop bandwidth of a phase-locked loop (PLL) limits the accuracy …

[PDF][PDF] Design of a dual band local positioning system

N Joram - 2015 - core.ac.uk
This work presents a robust dual band local positioning system (LPS) working in the 2. 4GHz
and 5. 8GHz industrial science medical (ISM) bands. Position measurement is based on the …