A 12-mW 500-Mb/s 1.8-μm CMOS pulsed UWB transceiver suitable for sub-meter short-range wireless communication

Author

Sasaki, Mamoru

Author_Institution

Hiroshima Univ., Hiroshima

fYear

2008

fDate

June 17 2008-April 17 2008

Firstpage

593

Lastpage

596

Abstract

This paper describes a 500-Mb/s 12-mW pulsed UWB transceiver in 1.8-mum CMOS technology for sub-meter short-range wireless communication. The transceiver employs two functional blocks for reducing power dissipation: one is an on-chip transformer-based DC-RF pulse power converter and another is an asynchronous RF-baseband direct demodulator. The prototype chip with printed dipole antenna can operate at a bit-error rate of 10^-3 or less on 40-cm distance, while dissipating less than 24 muW/Mb/s.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; demodulators; dipole antennas; error statistics; power convertors; pulse transformers; transceivers; ultra wideband communication; CMOS pulsed UWB transceiver; CMOS technology; DC-RF pulse power converter; asynchronous RF-baseband direct demodulator; bit rate 500 Mbit/s; bit-error rate; dipole antenna; on-chip transformer; power 12 mW; power dissipation; prototype chip; size 1.8 micron; submeter short-range wireless communication; Body sensor networks; Coils; Demodulation; FETs; MOS devices; Power dissipation; Pulse transformers; Transceivers; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Pulsed UWB transceiver; large data rate; low power; on-chip transformer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, 2008. RFIC 2008. IEEE

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

ISSN

1529-2517

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1808-4

Electronic_ISBN

1529-2517

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.2008.4561507

Filename

4561507