Nowadays, thanks to the modern technologies, the human being has been able todevelop new techniques to solve problems present in the past. Regarding the medicalfield, it is common to use several apparatus in order to measure the vital signs. Themain drawback about the traditional methods employed for this purpose is that theyare invasive towards the patient. However, in this thesis it has been developed afurther design of a radar system so as to be able to measure these vital signs in awireless way. Based on a 60 GHz frequency modulated continuous wave radar chip, it has been ableto increase the performance of the measurements by adding a second radar chip.Because of this new feature, the radar system is now having a better precision byprocessing greater data matrix to analyse the targets positions and theirmeasurements. In addition, an enhanced MCU has been incorporated in order toavoid performance bottlenecks because it is necessary to handle the processing of thedata received by the two radar chips. Lastly, reducing the sweeping time (periodbetween the lowest frequency broadcast to linearly reach the highest frequencybroadcast) from 20 ms the previous design to 1 ms, which requires higher samplingrate to cover the fast sweep and provide higher flow of information that leads to fasterdetection process. A 3D design of the prototype has been designed to show the physical appearance itwould have once entering in production. The result is a compact and highlyintegrated radar system which will be able to monitor the heart beating andrespiration frequency of a human being in a range of ten meters.

The aim of this diploma thesis is to study the possibilities and problems of low-profile antennas and subsequently to design a directional antenna with spherical reflector for millimeter wavelengths. The theoretical part deals with basic information about horn and reflector antennas, and about SIW technology. In addition, the thesis deals with the specific design and modeling of the antenna using CST Microwave Studio. The simulated design achieved a sufficient bandwidth to cover ISM (57 GHz to 64 GHz) with gain 13.6 dBi at 60 GHz frequency. On fabricated antenna, the antenna impedance ratios were worse and the target bandwidth was not reached. Antenna gain was 14.33 dBi at 60 GHz frequency.

Avec la prolifération des appareils électroniques portables et mobiles communicants, il est recommandé de pouvoir échanger des données rapidement et commodément entre les appareils. Avec la pénurie de bande passante et la congestion dans le spectre des fréquences faibles, la technologie de communication à ondes millimétriques (Mm-wave) est considérée comme l'une des technologies clés du futur pour permettre des applications sans fil à débit élevé grâce à son large spectre abondant. Les nœuds de technologie CMOS avancés sont dotés de ft et fmax plus élevés qui permettent une utilisation peu coûteuse et généralisée de ce spectre. Cependant, de nombreux défis associés à la conception de circuits et de systèmes RF millimétriques en utilisant des technologies CMOS avancées ont été identifiés. L’amplificateur de puissance (PA) a été identifié comme étant le bloc le plus difficile à concevoir dans un émetteur-récepteur intégré RF millimétrique. Le concept au niveau du système de l’architecture basse puissance est d’abord étudié et des blocs clés tels que l’antenne 60 GHz et le modulateur OOK dans la technologie CMOS 130nm ont été présentés. Cette thèse explore également les défis de conception de l’amplificateur de puissance à ondes millimétriques dans la technolgie 28nm UTBB-FDSOI. Trois conceptions différentes d’amplificateur de puissance de 60 GHz ont été démontrées dans 28nm LVT FDSOI : 1) Un PA cascode à deux étages, 2) Un PA différentiel à deux étages à base de transformateur, 3) Un PA différentiel à deux étages à puissance combinée. Les performances simulées, y compris la prise en compte des parasites principaux de disposition ont été présentées. Les travaux futurs incluront l’intégration sur puce avec le PA. / With the proliferation of portable and mobile electronic devices, there is a strong need to exchange data quickly and conveniently between devices encouraging to overcome challenges in bandwidth shortages and congestion in the lower frequencies spectrum. Millimeter-wave (Mm-wave) technology is considered as one of the future key technologies to enable high data rates wireless applications due to its large abundant spectrum. Advanced CMOS technology nodes comes with high ft and fmax, enable low cost and widespread use of this spectrum. However, many associated challenges ranging from device, circuit and system perspectives for the implementation of a highly integrated mm-wave transceiver especially the power amplifier (PA) which identified to be the most challenging RF block to be designed. The system level concept of low power architecture is firstly studied and key blocks such as 60 GHz antenna and OOK modulateur in 130nm CMOS technology were presented. This thesis also explores the design challenges of mm-wave power amplifier in 28nm UTBB-FDSOI technology. Three different designs of 60 GHz power amplifier were demonstrated in 28nm LVT FDSOI : 1) A two-stage cascode PA, 2) A two-stage differential PA with low-km TMN, 3) A power combined two-stage differential PA with low-km TMN. The simulated performance including the consideration of key layout parasitics were presented. Future work will include for on-chip integration with the PA.