Short bio

Jurjen Tangenberg received his B.E. degree in electronics engineering from Rens & Rens polytechnical school, Hilversum, The Netherlands, in 1995 and the M.S. degree in electronics engineering from the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, in 1998. In 1998, he joined Ericsson Eurolab Netherlands, Emmen, The Netherlands where he helped to develop the first single chip Bluetooth radio in RFCMOS.

Since 2003 he works at Bruco Integrated Circuits as RFIC design engineer. His interests are in IC-technology and high-frequency circuit design of RX/TX radio parts.

Marc van der Vossen was born in 1980 in Lisserbroek, The Netherlands. He received his B.Eng degree from HTS Haarlem in 2004. He then joined Thales Netherlands where he worked on, among others, X-band TR modules and Ka-band solid state transmitters. In 2010 he started at Bruco Integrated Circuits as RF Application design engineer and is now working in analog and RFIC design.

Abstract

A highly integrated Ku-band (10.7–12.75 GHz) planar phased array receiver of 64 antenna elements is presented. It features instantaneous reception of the full Ku-band (2.05 GHz wide) in two orthogonal polarizations with wide scan angles by using time delay instead of phase shift. The receiver is part of a system for satellite broadcast TV reception on board of moving vehicles. Two SiGe radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) were developed, packaged in ceramic BGAs and assembled onto a 15-layer printed circuit board (PCB) which integrates the antenna elements. It sets a new standard in integration density. The receiver has extensive analog signal processing at intermediate frequency (IF)-level. A novel bipolar implementation for true time delay is proposed, with a continuous programmable delay range of 0...80 ps with less than 2.5 ps group-delay variation in 2 GHz bandwidth (BW). The wide BW calls for a constant group-delay implementation in the IF chain. The receiver (RFIC) consumes only 132 mW per channel. Each channel has 40 dB gain