Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Vol 12, No 6: June 2014

X-Band 5-bit MMIC Digital Attenuator With Low Phase Shift

Chengpeng Liu (Sichuan Institute of Solid State Circuits)
Xin Xu (Unknown)
Zhengrong He (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Jun 2014

Abstract

This paper presents the x-band 5-bit MMIC digital attenuator with low phase shift. Phase compensation techniques were used in the MMIC design to reduce the phase shift. This attenuator is fabricated with 0.2µm GaAs PHEMT process. Measurement results of the developed MMIC chips in the x-band show that the 5-bit MMIC digital attenuator has 0.5dB resolution and 15.5dB dynamic attenuation range, input return losses was less than 10dB and output return losses was less than 13dB for all attenuation states, RMS is less than 0.2dB; insertion loss is less than 3.8dB; phase shift error is less than 5°for 35 attenuation states; The MMIC chip size is 1.58 mm×2.95 mm×0.1mm. DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/telkomnika.v12i6.4742

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