Frontend ICs for impulse radio sensing and communications

Author

Schumacher, H. ; Lin, D. ; Trasser, A.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electron Devices & Circuits, Ulm Univ., Ulm, Germany

fYear

2012

fDate

17-20 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

21

Lastpage

25

Abstract

The chipsets discussed in this paper follow the philosophy that the beauty of impulse radio ultra-wideband lies in its simplicity. They provide fully differential circuit solutions in a low-cost SiGe heterostructure bipolar transistor technology addressing short range radar sensors as well as communication links. At the core, an efficient pulse generator concept allows for spectral tunability as well as biphase modulated pulses. Receiver concepts implement correlation detection for radar and biphase modulation, and energy detection for on-off keying communications and localization. Finally, a successful approach to rapid turn-around transmit/receive modules for monostatic IR UWB radars is presented.

Keywords

Ge-Si alloys; amplitude shift keying; heterojunction bipolar transistors; phase modulation; pulse generators; radar detection; radar receivers; radio links; radiofrequency integrated circuits; semiconductor materials; sensor placement; ultra wideband communication; ultra wideband radar; SiGe; biphase modulated pulses; biphase modulation; communication links; correlation detection; differential circuit; frontend IC; impulse radio sensing; impulse radio ultrawideband communication; low-cost heterostructure bipolar transistor technology; monostatic IR UWB radars; on-off keying communications; pulse generator; receiver; short range radar sensors; spectral tunability; transmit-receive modules; Correlation; Integrated circuits; Pulse generation; Receivers; Ultra wideband radar; Microwave integrated circuits; Ultra wideband radar; Ultra wideband technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Syracuse, NY

ISSN

2162-6588

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2031-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340407

Filename

6340407