Integrated Adjustable Phase Shifters

Ellinger, Frank; Mayer, Uwe; Wickert, Michael; Joram, Niko; Wagner, Jens; Eickhoff, Ralf; Santamarı́a, Ignacio; Scheytt, Christoph; Kraemer, Rolf

doi:10.1109/mmm.2010.937730

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“…Electronically reconfigurable phase shifters (PSs) are a key element in the design of phased arrays. The different typologies of PS can be grouped into two main categories: analog and digital PS. Analog PSs provide a continuously variable phase delay while in digital architectures the insertion phase can be only set to a fixed number of values.…”

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A SiGe BiCMOS phase shifter based on quarter‐wave coupled resonators

Calzona

Boccia

Arnieri

et al. 2019

Int J RF Microw Comput Aided Eng

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This work presents the first example of monolithically integrated phase shifter based on a pass‐band filter architecture. The proposed configuration was realized mapping a classical quarter‐wave coupled filter circuit into its lumped element equivalent. Phase control is achieved by controlling the pass‐band through tunable tanks employing varactor diodes. A demonstrator was prototyped in the 24 GHz ISM band using a 0.25μm SiGe BiCMOS technology. Experimental results show 180° of phase range and maximum transmission losses of 8 dB. The main feature of this configuration is that it allows controlling the transmission losses by design and that its size is extremely compact.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 89%

A SiGe BiCMOS phase shifter based on quarter‐wave coupled resonators

Calzona

Boccia

Arnieri

et al. 2019

Int J RF Microw Comput Aided Eng

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“…Ideally, the relationship between the analogue control voltage

V_{normalBBI} / V_{normalBBQ}

(short for

V_{normalBBI}

and

V_{normalBBQ}

) and the corresponding transmission phase and amplitude characteristic (S21) of a Cartesian type VM is as follows [29]:

\begin{matrix} right leftthickmathspace.5em \\ |S 21| \propto \sqrt{V_{normalBBI}^{2} + V_{normalBBQ}^{2}} \\ ∠ S 21 = \arctan \frac{V_{BBQ}}{V_{BBI}} \end{matrix}

By using (1), we can calculate the corresponding

V_{normalBBI} / V_{normalBBQ}

of the desired S21, and use this pair of control voltages to set the VM. By comparing the measured S21 of the actual VM to the desired S21, we find that the amount of deviation between them is not significant in most cases.…”

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Implementation and broadband calibration of a multichannel vector modulator module

Wang

Miao

2017

IET Science, Measurement & Technology

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“…When compared to passive phase shifter topologies, active phase shifter topologies such as vector-sum architectures, sometimes referred as vector-modulators provide better phase quantization levels in smaller chip sizes [8]- [10]. Unlike the passive phase shifter topologies, increasing the phase quantization levels in the vector-sum phase shifters (VSPS) do not increase the overall chip size but only increases the complexity of the digital control circuitry [11]- [14].…”

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A 5–13 GHz 6-bit vector-sum phase shifter with +3.5 dBm IP1dB in 0.25-μm SiGe BiCMOS

Çetindoğan

Üstündağ

Burak

et al. 2017

2017 IEEE Asia Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC)

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This paper presents a wideband vector-sum phase shifter (VSPS) with high phase resolution and high inputreferered 1 dB compression point (IP1dB) which covers the full 360 • phase range with 5.6 • phase steps between 5-13 GHz in a commercial 0.25-μm SiGe BiCMOS technology. A transformer balun and an RC polyphase filter (PPF) are implemented for inphase and quadrature phase (I/Q) reference vector generation while the desired phase states are generated by an adder stage where the amplitudes of the I/Q reference vectors are manipulated with digitally controlled variable gain amplifiers (VGAs). The measured root mean square (RMS) phase error of the VSPS is <2.8 • between 7.4-10.3 GHz and <5.6 • between 5.4-11.9 GHz with a measured average insertion loss >7.8 dB. Thus, the VSPS achieves 6-bit phase resolution. IP1dB for the 1 st state of the VSPS at 10 GHz is measured to be +3.5 dBm. Overall chip size of the VSPS IC is only 1.22×0.59 = 0.71 mm 2 , excluding the RF and the DC pads.Index Terms-Vector-sum phase shifter, active phase shifter, transformer balun, I/Q network, VGA, SiGe BiCMOS, phased array.

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Integrated Adjustable Phase Shifters

Cited by 39 publications

References 39 publications

A SiGe BiCMOS phase shifter based on quarter‐wave coupled resonators

A SiGe BiCMOS phase shifter based on quarter‐wave coupled resonators

Implementation and broadband calibration of a multichannel vector modulator module

A 5–13 GHz 6-bit vector-sum phase shifter with +3.5 dBm IP1dB in 0.25-μm SiGe BiCMOS

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