A fully integrated 77GHz FMCW radar system in 65nm CMOS

Abstract

Millimeter-wave anti-collision radars have been widely investigated in advanced CMOS technologies recently. This paper presents a fully integrated 77GHz FMCW radar system in 65nm CMOS. The FMCW radar transmits a continuous wave which is triangularly modulated in frequency and receives the wave reflected from objects. As can be illustrated in Fig. 11.2.1, for a moving target, the received frequency would be shifted (i.e. Doppler shift), resulting in two different offset frequencies f + and f− for the falling and rising ramps. Denoting the modulation range and period as B and Tm, respectively, we can derive the distance R and the relative velocity VR as listed in Fig. 11.2.1, where fc represents the center frequency and c the speed of light.