A Fully Integrated 24 GHz SiGe Receiver Chip in a Low-cost QFN Plastic Package

Abstract

A fully integrated, plastic packaged, 24 GHz SiGe receiver chip is presented. The chip has been manufactured using a commercially available SiGe foundry process. It can be used in a variety of applications including automotive radar sensors and phased-array receivers. The receiver supports two channels which can be used to support sum and delta antenna pattern inputs. The receiver comprises of two LNAs, a DPST switch, an I/Q downconverter, baseband variable gain amplifiers, and integrate-and-dump filters. The receiver has 45 dB of conversion gain with 7.8 dB noise figure (with plastic package) at 24 GHz.