An Ultralow Power Burst-Chirp UWB Radar Transceiver for Indoor Vital Signs and Occupancy Sensing in 40-nm CMOS

Abstract

This letter presents an ultrawideband (UWB) radar for occupancy and vital signs detection. The proposed burst-chirp operation achieves $> 30\times $ power reduction and abundant margin for the UWB spectrum regulations. With the proposed Domino chirp generation and time-domain predistortion, the radar has a fast chirp slope of 0.7 GHz/40 $\mu \text{s}$ and a low RMS error of 0.5 MHz. Fabricated in a 40-nm CMOS process, the presented radar consumes a record-low power of 680 $\mu \text{W}$ and can detect human respiration and heartbeat up to 15 and 5 m, respectively.