A New Symmetric Transceiver Architecture for Pulsed Short-Range Communication

This paper proposes a novel symmetric super- regenerative transceiver architecture for pulsed short-range communication. The proposed architecture is targeted for wireless applications where ultra low power consumption and data-rate in tens of megabits per second are needed over distances in the range of tens of centimeters. The transmitter and receiver are both based on super-regenerative principle and both functions in the transceiver utilize one mutual super-regenerative oscillator. Additionally, the transceiver architecture allows fast synchronization of transceivers thanks to the delayed reflection phenomenon which makes it possible to detect correct timing simultaneously at both ends of the system. Measurement results demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed principle.