학술논문

Fast and highly accurate RF phase detector with analog integrator for APAA system
Document Type
Conference
Source
2013 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference Proceedings (APMC) Microwave Conference Proceedings (APMC), 2013 Asia-Pacific. :1-3 Nov, 2013
Subject
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Radio frequency
Detectors
Accuracy
Voltage measurement
Standards
Time measurement
RF signals
Phase detection
BiCMOS integrated circuits
Phased arrays
Power amplifiers
Language
ISSN
2165-4727
2165-4743
Abstract
An RF phase detector employing an analog integrator is proposed for active phased array antenna system. The RF phase detector, consisting of an analog integrator, a mixer and a divider can realize both fast and highly accurate detection at the same time. By setting the integral time of the analog integrator as integral multiple of the half cycle of RF signal, the variation of output voltage due to second harmonic of the mixer output can be prevented. The proposed RF phase detector is fabricated in 0.18μm SiGe-BiCMOS process. It is achieved that the measured accuracy of phase detection is 0.52 deg.-rms in the detection time of 8ns at 1GHz.