Texas Instruments Incorporated
FMCW radar system on a chip measuring phase noise

Abstract:

A cascaded radar system is provided that includes a master radar system-on-a-chip (SOC) with transmission signal generation circuitry and a slave radar SOC coupled to an output of the master radar SOC to receive a signal from the transmission signal generation circuitry of the master SOC. In this system, the slave radar SOC is operable to measure phase noise in the signal received from the transmission signal generation circuitry of the master SOC.