22-29GHz Ultra-Wideband CMOS Pulse Generator for Collision Avoidance Short Range Vehicular Radar Sensors

Ahmet Oncu, B.B.M. Wasanthamala Badalawa, Tong Wang and Minoru FUJISHIMA
School of Frontier Sciences The University of Tokyo
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Introduction
Front Central control unit
Radar CCU

Right side

Left side

360o pre-crash detection Collision warning Blind spot detection Intersection alerts Automatic cruse control Park aid .. A few cm resolution At least 5GHz Bandwidth Low power Low cost
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Back

Radar sensor

Short range radar sensor system covering 360o

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Proposed CMOS SR radar sensor

Conventional transmitter for SR pulse radar sensor
rectangular envelope pulse train

Proposed CMOS SR pulse radar sensor

PN data This work Pulse Receiver CMOS PRC envelope

TX
object

CW input

TX pulse width control

DSP

DSP

RX

CMOS

Many discrete components mmWave CW oscillator ON High power consumption

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Less discrete components No mmWave CW oscillator Low power consumption

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Pulse generator block diagram

Input D D D D D

Output

D Delay Cell Edge Combiner

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Time domain measurement

VRFpp=71mV
552ps

PRFpeak=-19dBm
Subtracting connection loss (4.6dB)

71mV

VRFpp=120mV
39.2ps

FCC specification Pout= 41.3dBm/MHz Pinst= 0dBm

Required PA gain G= 14 ~ 19dB

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Chip summary
Chip summary
Technology Band Modulation Supply Voltage 90nm CMOS 22-29GHz OOK 0.91V 1 Gbps 1.4 mW 90m 15m 6

Core

Max Data Rate Power Consumption Core Size

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Conclusion
Pseudo mmWave UWB CMOS pulse generator for short range automotive radar application is demonstrated. Up to 1Gbps input data rate, 7GHz wide and 552ps shot pulses with -14dBm output power are generated. 3.19 mW static power dissipation and 1.4pJ/bit which is 100 times less than reported pulse generators. With its simple structure it will open up new application for short range collision avoidance automotive radars with low power consumption and low cost.

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