Scalable D-Band Front-Ends for Short-Range Radar and Wireless Communication Systems

This talk covers our recent results in the field of silicon-germanium BiCMOS integrated front-ends for D-band radar sensor systems and wireless communications. The presented circuits feature scalability function and modulation flexibility to support future complex high-performance MIMO radar system architectures with a large number of channels. Furthermore, bidirectional transmit/receive modules covering the whole D-band including related frequency multiplier chains for up/down-conversion are presented. Furthermore, transmit/receive chipsets with integrated antennas for wireless short-range are discussed.