A 77-GHz CMOS Automotive Radar Transceiver With Anti-Interference Function

This paper presents a 77-GHz long-range automotive radar transceiver with the function of reducing mutual interference. The proposed frequency-hopping random chirp FMCW technique reconfigures the chirp sweep frequency and time every cycle to result in noise-like frequency response for mutual interference after the received signal is down-converted and demodulated. Thus, the false alarm rate can be reduced significantly. The transceiver IC is fully integrated in TSMC 1P9M 65-nm digital CMOS technology. The chip including pads occupies a silicon area of 1.03 mm × 0.94 mm. The transceiver consumes totally 275 mW of power, and the measured transmitting power and receiver noise figure are 6.4 dBm and 14.8 dB, respectively. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first integrated 77-GHz automotive radar transceiver with the feature of anti-interference.