Study of non-coherent transceivers for UWB communication

This paper presents two transceiver architectures for Ultra Wide Band. The first uses the PPM modulation and the second, the PPV modulation. These architectures are characterized by a low complexity and are suitable for implementation using CMOS technology. Both of the systems are non-coherent, using autocorrelation receiver. They have new techniques for receiver synchronization and bit detection which offers a good performance. Simulated results show the performance improvement of the autocorrelation receivers.