Fully tunable UWB pulse generator with zero DC power consumption

Author

Vauché, R. ; Bourdel, S. ; Dehaese, N. ; Fourquin, O. ; Gaubert, J.

Author_Institution

CNRS, Aix-Marseille Univ., Marseille, France

fYear

2009

fDate

9-11 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

418

Lastpage

422

Abstract

The design of a fully tunable pulse generator using only logic cells is presented and simulated with 0.13 mum standard CMOS process. The generator is based on the elementary pulse combination and can synthesize different UWB pulse shapes. The generator uses logic gates to achieve the elementary pulses and a H-bridge to make the combination which leads to a zero DC power consumption. To achieve FCC compliant pulse having 2 V_PP magnitude the generator consumes 140 pJ by pulse using 1.2 V supply voltage.

Keywords

CMOS logic circuits; logic gates; low-power electronics; pulse generators; ultra wideband communication; CMOS process; H-bridge principle; UWB pulse shape synthesize; fully tunable UWB pulse generator; logic gate; size 0.13 mum; voltage 1.2 V; zero DC power consumption; CMOS logic circuits; CMOS process; DC generators; Energy consumption; Logic design; Logic gates; Power generation; Pulse generation; Pulse shaping methods; Shape; H-Bridge; Pulse Shape; Tunable Pulse Generator; UWB;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultra-Wideband, 2009. ICUWB 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2930-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2931-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUWB.2009.5288788

Filename

5288788