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A 500 MHz phase generator for synthetic aperture radar waveform synthesizers [Book Chapter]

Conference · · [1991] GaAs IC Symposium Technical Digest
 [1];  [2]
  1. Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
  2. GigaBit Logic, Inc., Newbury Park, CA (United States); Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (United States)
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A GaAs Phase Generator ASIC has been developed using GigaBit's SC10000 standard cell library which produces the quadratic phase necessary to generate a linear-FM chirp waveform. Fully functional chips have been fabricated using a 3-layer metal, 0.9 μm gate E/D-MESFET process. Measured maximum accumulation rates vary from 450 MHz to 590 MHz. The chip is fully ECL and TTL compatible and is packaged in GigaBit's standard 132-pin ceramic package. The phase generator has been successfully tested in a prototype synthetic aperture radar at Sandia National Laboratories. Sample rates as high as 800 Msamples/sec have been synthesized using two phase generator/sine ROM combinations in parallel driving a TriQuint TQ6112 DAC.

Research Organization:
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-76DP00789
OSTI ID:
5385793
Report Number(s):
SAND-91-0966C; CONF-9110202--2; ON: DE91018399; ISBN: 0-7803-0196-X
Journal Information:
[1991] GaAs IC Symposium Technical Digest, Journal Name: [1991] GaAs IC Symposium Technical Digest
Publisher:
IEEE
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (1)

Low-power high-performance GaAs SCL cell family for signal-processing applications conference October 1990

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Related Subjects

42 ENGINEERING
426000* -- Engineering-- Components
Electron Devices & Circuits-- (1990-)
ARSENIC COMPOUNDS
ARSENIDES
DESIGN
ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
EQUIPMENT
FILTERS
FREQUENCY RANGE
FUNCTION GENERATORS
GALLIUM ARSENIDES
GALLIUM COMPOUNDS
IMAGE PROCESSING
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
MHZ RANGE
MHZ RANGE 100-1000
MICROELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
PNICTIDES
PROCESSING
RADAR
RANGE FINDERS
SYNTHETIC-APERTURE RADAR
WAVE FORMS