A 17 mW 3-to-5 GHz Duty-Cycled Vital Sign Detection Radar Transceiver With Frequency Hopping and Time-Domain Oversampling

摘要

This paper presents a low power interference-robust radar transceiver architecture for noncontact vital sign detection and mobile healthcare applications. A duty-cycled transceiver design is proposed to significantly reduce power consumption of front-end circuits. Occupying 3-to-5 GHz band with four 500 MHz sub-channels, the radar mitigates the narrowband interference (NBI) problem with the frequency hopping scheme. In the time domain, the ΔΣ TDC is employed to achieve fine ranging resolution with noise shaped oversampling. The transceiver implemented in 65 nm CMOS consumes 17.2 mW from a 1.0-V supply when duty-cycled and achieves an RMS detection accuracy of 5.68 mm.