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An X-Band CMOS Digital Phased Array Radar from Hardware to Software
Phased array technology features rapid and directional scanning and has become a promising approach for remote sensing and wireless communication. In addition, element-level digitization has increased the feasibility of complicated signal processing and simultaneous multi-beamforming processes. Howe...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8588162/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34770693 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21217382 |
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author | Wu, Yue-Ming Chou, Hao-Chung Ke, Cheng-Yung Wang, Chien-Cheng Li, Chien-Te Chang, Li-Han Su, Borching Chu, Ta-Shun Wang, Yu-Jiu |
author_facet | Wu, Yue-Ming Chou, Hao-Chung Ke, Cheng-Yung Wang, Chien-Cheng Li, Chien-Te Chang, Li-Han Su, Borching Chu, Ta-Shun Wang, Yu-Jiu |
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description | Phased array technology features rapid and directional scanning and has become a promising approach for remote sensing and wireless communication. In addition, element-level digitization has increased the feasibility of complicated signal processing and simultaneous multi-beamforming processes. However, the high cost and bulky characteristics of beam-steering systems have prevented their extensive application. In this paper, an X-band element-level digital phased array radar utilizing fully integrated complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) transceivers is proposed for achieving a low-cost and compact-size digital beamforming system. An 8–10 GHz transceiver system-on-chip (SoC) fabricated in 65 nm CMOS technology offers baseband filtering, frequency translation, and global clock synchronization through the proposed periodic pulse injection technique. A 16-element subarray module with an SoC integration, antenna-in-package, and tile array configuration achieves digital beamforming, back-end computing, and dc–dc conversion with a size of 317 × 149 × 74.6 mm(3). A radar demonstrator with scalable subarray modules simultaneously realizes range sensing and azimuth recognition for pulsed radar configurations. Captured by the suggested software-defined pulsed radar, a complete range–azimuth figure with a 1 km maximum observation range can be displayed within 150 ms under the current implementation. |
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spelling | pubmed-85881622021-11-13 An X-Band CMOS Digital Phased Array Radar from Hardware to Software Wu, Yue-Ming Chou, Hao-Chung Ke, Cheng-Yung Wang, Chien-Cheng Li, Chien-Te Chang, Li-Han Su, Borching Chu, Ta-Shun Wang, Yu-Jiu Sensors (Basel) Article Phased array technology features rapid and directional scanning and has become a promising approach for remote sensing and wireless communication. In addition, element-level digitization has increased the feasibility of complicated signal processing and simultaneous multi-beamforming processes. However, the high cost and bulky characteristics of beam-steering systems have prevented their extensive application. In this paper, an X-band element-level digital phased array radar utilizing fully integrated complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) transceivers is proposed for achieving a low-cost and compact-size digital beamforming system. An 8–10 GHz transceiver system-on-chip (SoC) fabricated in 65 nm CMOS technology offers baseband filtering, frequency translation, and global clock synchronization through the proposed periodic pulse injection technique. A 16-element subarray module with an SoC integration, antenna-in-package, and tile array configuration achieves digital beamforming, back-end computing, and dc–dc conversion with a size of 317 × 149 × 74.6 mm(3). A radar demonstrator with scalable subarray modules simultaneously realizes range sensing and azimuth recognition for pulsed radar configurations. Captured by the suggested software-defined pulsed radar, a complete range–azimuth figure with a 1 km maximum observation range can be displayed within 150 ms under the current implementation. MDPI 2021-11-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8588162/ /pubmed/34770693 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21217382 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Wu, Yue-Ming Chou, Hao-Chung Ke, Cheng-Yung Wang, Chien-Cheng Li, Chien-Te Chang, Li-Han Su, Borching Chu, Ta-Shun Wang, Yu-Jiu An X-Band CMOS Digital Phased Array Radar from Hardware to Software |
title | An X-Band CMOS Digital Phased Array Radar from Hardware to Software |
title_full | An X-Band CMOS Digital Phased Array Radar from Hardware to Software |
title_fullStr | An X-Band CMOS Digital Phased Array Radar from Hardware to Software |
title_full_unstemmed | An X-Band CMOS Digital Phased Array Radar from Hardware to Software |
title_short | An X-Band CMOS Digital Phased Array Radar from Hardware to Software |
title_sort | x-band cmos digital phased array radar from hardware to software |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8588162/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34770693 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21217382 |
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