Development of X-band frequency synthesizer for radar transceiver

레이더 송수신기용 X 밴드 주파수 합성기 개발

A frequency synthesizer of 10 GHz ${\sim}$ 11 GHz for FMCW radar is designed and implemented by the form of indirect frequency synthesizer of a single loop structure. The synthesizer uses a high speed digital PLL chip. It is difficult to divide directly by using a program counter of PLL chip because the output frequency of VCO is 10 GHz ${\sim}$ 11 GHz, so we lower the frequency to 625 MHz ${\sim}$ 687.5 MHz by using a prescaler, and then divide the frequency by the program counter. The output frequency sweep of VCO from 10 GHz to 11 GHz is measured.