Course No.: L.048.98032

Type: Project group

Credits: 9

Semester: WS & SS

Schedule and Location: t.b.a.

Short description

Design of an integrated radar transceiver.

Content

The project Radio frequency ID Cesign focusses on the design of a radar transceiver for automotive applications. Thereby, we are targeting cutting edge performance by using the best SiGe or CMOS technology available to our university through the Europractice program. Within the project, microchips are designed in industry standards, using commercially available design software.
Possible topics include: On the transmitter side a VCO, Frequency multiplier, Power Amplifier etc. and on the receiver side e.g. a LNA, IQ Mixer etc.

Tasks

• Fully understand the functionality of the component to be designed
• Schematic design of an analog core component
• Characterization of all important performance metrics
• Layout and verification (DRC, LVS) of the core component
• Electromagnetic field simulation to evaluate the post-layout performance

Organization

The project is divided into 5 segments:

• Microseminar (independend selfstudy into a scientific topic + presentation)
• Circuit design and simulation
• Schematic Review Meeting (Presentation)
• Transfer of the schematic designs into layouts + post-layout simulation

• Final presentation + report

If enough students apply, the students start with solving their own individual tasks, followed by a combination of all individual designs to create a full system.

Requirements

Participation in one of the following lecture courses is considered mandatory for participation in this project:

• „Schaltungstechnik“ from „Bachelor Electrical Engineering“ program of Paderborn University.

or

• "Circuit and System Design“ from „Electrical Systems Engineering“ or “Computer Engineering” programs of Paderborn University.

and

• At least one additional course form Prof Thiede or Prof. Scheytt.

Additionally, a successfully finished microseminar is mandatory (the microseminar is taking place in the beginning of the project after registration in PAUL).

Teaching staff

M.Sc. Stephan Kruse

To the currently offered projects.