A low power noncoherent CMOS UWB transceiver ICs

Author

Zheng, Yuanjin ; Tong, Yan ; Yan, Jiangnan ; Xu, Yong-Ping ; Yeoh, Wooi Gan ; Lin, Fujiang

Author_Institution

Inst. of Microelectron., Singapore

fYear

2005

Firstpage

347

Lastpage

350

Abstract

A fully integrated pulse based UWB transmitter and receiver (TRX) using a novel and simple noncoherent architecture is presented. Fabricated in a 0.18μm CMOS process, the signal from the transmitter is binary amplitude modulated pulses and meets FCC UWB low frequency band (3.1-5 GHz) specification. The receiver archives a noise figure of 7.5 dB, IIP3 of -14 dBm, and sensitivity of -72 dBm. The TRX can attain a transmission rate up to 50 Mbps without synchronization circuits and consumes 41.4 mW average power.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit measurement; integrated circuit noise; low-power electronics; radio receivers; radio transmitters; telecommunication standards; transceivers; ultra wideband communication; 0.18 micron; 3.1 to 5 GHz; 41.4 mW; 50 Mbit/s; 7.5 dB; CMOS process; FCC UWB low frequency band specification; IIP3; TRX; average power; binary amplitude modulated pulse transmitter signal; fully integrated pulse based UWB transmitter receiver; low power noncoherent CMOS UWB transceiver IC; noncoherent architecture; pulse generator; pulse modulator; receiver noise figure; sensitivity; transmission rate; Amplitude modulation; CMOS process; Circuits; FCC; Frequency synchronization; Noise figure; Pulse modulation; Signal processing; Transceivers; Transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, 2005. Digest of Papers. 2005 IEEE

ISSN

1529-2517

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8983-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.2005.1489805

Filename

1489805