Title :
Voltage gain control of a VGA in a UWB receiver
Author :
Kang, Kyu-min ; Sung-Woo Choi ; Sang-In Cho ; Sang-sung Choi
Author_Institution :
Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Daejeon
Abstract :
We present a voltage gain control method of a voltage gain amplifier (VGA) in an ultra wideband (UWB) receiver, which can facilitate packet detection and improve the performance of initial timing synchronization. A hardware efficient AGC algorithm for UWB transmission is discussed. We also investigate the effect of the initial voltage gain level of the VGA at the radio frequency (RF) receiver in order to effectively conduct the initial timing acquisition in the UWB channel environment.
Keywords :
gain control; radio receivers; synchronisation; ultra wideband communication; wireless channels; UWB channel; UWB receiver; UWB transmission; packet detection; radio frequency receiver; timing synchronization; ultra wideband receiver; voltage gain amplifier; voltage gain control; Broadband amplifiers; Frequency synchronization; Gain control; Hardware; Performance gain; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency amplifiers; Receivers; Timing; Ultra wideband technology; Voltage gain control; automatic gain control (AGC); ultra wideband (UWB); voltage gain amplifier (VGA);
Conference_Titel :
Consumer Electronics, 2008. ISCE 2008. IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Vilamoura
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2422-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2422-1
DOI :
10.1109/ISCE.2008.4559548
