A 27-mW W-Band Radar Receiver With Effective TX Leakage Suppression in 28-nm FD-SOI CMOS

This paper presents a 77-GHz automotive radar receiver in a 28-nm fully depleted silicon-on-insulator CMOS technology. It exploits a mixer-first direct-conversion architecture to trade-off noise and linearity performance. The receiver is composed of a 77-GHz downconverter, a variable-gain amplifier, and a switched-capacitor low-pass filter. It adopts an effective and robust approach for leakage suppression due to the TX to RX crosstalk, which overcomes both gain and linearity limitations. The receiver draws an overall quiescent current as low as 27 mA from a 1-V supply voltage and provides an overall gain up to 75 dB with a noise figure of 8.2 dB. Despite the low supply voltage, an excellent blocker immunity of -9.5 dBm is achieved along with an output 1-dB compression point as high as -1.5 dB(V).

Automated summary

This paper presents a 77-GHz automotive radar receiver designed with a mixer-first direct-conversion architecture, which achieves low quiescent current and excellent blocker immunity. Through an effective crosstalk suppression method, it overcomes gain and linearity limitations.