Ka Band Chip-Set for Electronically Steerable Antennas

Ka Band Chip-Set for Electronically Steerable Antennas

This paper presents a Ka band chipset dedicated to electronically steerable antenna systems. The first MMIC of the chipset is a multifunction chip including several amplifier stages, digitally controlled attenuator and phase shifter, a complex Transmit/Receive switching scheme and a Serial Input to...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:2014 IEEE Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Symposium (CSICS) pp. 1 - 4
Main Authors: Leblanc, Remy, Santos Ibeas, Noelia, Gasmi, Ahmed, Moron, Joel
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01-10-2014
Subjects:
Gain measurement
MMICs
Noise measurement
Phase measurement
Power amplifiers
Power generation
Semiconductor device measurement
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:This paper presents a Ka band chipset dedicated to electronically steerable antenna systems. The first MMIC of the chipset is a multifunction chip including several amplifier stages, digitally controlled attenuator and phase shifter, a complex Transmit/Receive switching scheme and a Serial Input to Parallel Output digital circuit. The second MMIC includes a Low Noise amplifier, a Power amplifier and a Transmit/Receive switching circuitry. Both circuits present state of the art performances at frequencies above 30 GHz and allow together a huge reduction of system complexity. The circuits are fabricated using P-HEMT processes validated for Space use. Various possible architectures together with design issues and test results will be presented.
ISSN:1550-8781
2374-8443
DOI:10.1109/CSICS.2014.6978564