Millimeter-Wave Radars-on-Chip Enabling Next-Generation Cyberphysical Infrastructures

This article provides an overview of current and future implementations of high-resolution millimeter-wave active sensor technologies for applications in cyber-physical systems. The two major groups of active sensors, that is, pulsed and frequency modulated continuous-wave radars, are studied, and their performance for benchmark applications are compared. The specific design challenges of these radar technologies are discussed, and system/block level solutions to mitigate them are proposed. Finally, system architectures to co-integrate the proposed radar-on-chip and 5G communication transmitters are introduced.

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