Publications by Francesco Chicco

An Ultralow Power Short-Range 60-GHz FMCW Radar in 22-nm FDSOI CMOS

This article presents the design of an ultralow power short-range 57-66 GHz frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar. The transmitter (TX) path includes a BPSK modulator in order to implement a low-IF architecture and it is optimized for short-rang ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2024

Low-Power and Wide-Tuning Range Frequency Generation for FMCW Radars in Advanced CMOS Technologies

Francesco Chicco

Nowadays, the internet of things (IoT) nodes have started to spread in various domains of our society, from the industrial to the domestic environment. The remote sensing is one among their fundamental functions. The implementation of a radio detection and ...

EPFL2021

Power-Optimized Digitally Controlled Oscillator in 28-nm CMOS for Low-Power FMCW Radars

Christian Enz, Francesco Chicco, Sammy Cerida Rengifo, Franz Xaver Pengg

This work presents the design of a 24-GHz digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) in an advanced 28-nm bulk CMOS technology for short-range frequency-modulated continuous-wave radar system-on-chip for mobile and Internet-of-Things devices. The power minimiza ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

An Optimized Low-Power Band-Tuning TX for Short-Range FMCW Radar in 22-nm FDSOI CMOS

Christian Enz, Francesco Chicco, Sammy Cerida Rengifo

The paper presents a low-power transmitter (TX) as a part of a fully integrated 57-66 GHz FMCW radar system. The TX path includes a BPSK modulator and it is optimized for short-range operation with 0 dBm output power. A band-tuning technique is used for co ...

IEEE2021

A 60 GHz QDCO with 11 GHz Seamless Tuning for Low-Power FMCW Radars in 22-nm FDSOI

Christian Enz, Francesco Chicco, Sammy Cerida Rengifo

This paper presents the design of a 60GHz Quadrature Digitally-Controlled Oscillator for a low-power Frequency-Modulated Continuous Wave radar System-on-Chip. The accurate detection of vital signs requires 1 and Q demodulation of the received signal. The q ...

IEEE2021

Charge-Based Distortion Analysis of Nanoscale MOSFETs

Christian Enz, Francesco Chicco, Alessandro Pezzotta

This paper presents a study of MOSFETs' linearity, exploiting a simplified version of the charge-based EKV model. It allows to deduce analytically the one-tone and two-tone harmonic distortions introduced by the nonlinear ID-VG MOSFET characteristic as a f ...

2018

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An Ultralow Power Short-Range 60-GHz FMCW Radar in 22-nm FDSOI CMOS

Low-Power and Wide-Tuning Range Frequency Generation for FMCW Radars in Advanced CMOS Technologies

Power-Optimized Digitally Controlled Oscillator in 28-nm CMOS for Low-Power FMCW Radars

An Optimized Low-Power Band-Tuning TX for Short-Range FMCW Radar in 22-nm FDSOI CMOS

A 60 GHz QDCO with 11 GHz Seamless Tuning for Low-Power FMCW Radars in 22-nm FDSOI

Charge-Based Distortion Analysis of Nanoscale MOSFETs

Nanoscale MOSFET Modeling: Part 2: Using the Inversion Coefficient as the Primary Design Parameter

Nanoscale MOSFET Modeling: Part 1: The Simplified EKV Model for the Design of Low-Power Analog Circuits

Analysis of power consumption in LC oscillators based on the inversion coefficient

Linear analysis of phase noise in LC oscillators in deep submicron CMOS technologies