An UWB receiver front-end for low data rate Wireless Personal Area Networks

Author

Klymenko, Oleksiy ; Martynenko, Denys ; Fischer, Gunter

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Innovative Mikroelektron., Brandenburg, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

24-25 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper describes front-end components of the monolithic integrated impulse radio (IR) Ultra-wide band (UWB) receiver. The receiver is intended for the use in Low Data Rate (LDR) Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN) which is defined by the IEEE 802.15.4a standard. In order to assure compliance with the standard, receiver RF front-end components are designed towards higher degree of integration, low cost and low power consumption operation. The receiver operates in the higher UWB band and is able to cover channels from 5 to 9 of the IEEE 802.15.4a standard, which corresponds to the frequency range from 6 to 8.25 GHz. The circuit was fabricated in 0.25 mum SiGe:C BiCMOS technology.

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; Ge-Si alloys; low-power electronics; microwave receivers; monolithic integrated circuits; personal area networks; radio receivers; ultra wideband communication; IEEE 802.15.4a standard; RF front-end component; SiGe:C; UWB receiver; frequency 6 GHz to 8.25 GHz; front-end component; low data rate wireless personal area network; low power consumption operation; monolithic integrated impulse radio; size 0.25 mum; Conferences; Costs; Data communication; Energy consumption; Frequency; Microwave Theory and Techniques Society; Radiofrequency identification; Receivers; Wireless personal area networks; Wireless sensor networks; Ultra-wide band; WPAN; impulse radio; receiver front-end;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Sensing, Local Positioning, and RFID, 2009. IMWS 2009. IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop on

Conference_Location

Cavtat

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5060-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5062-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMWS2.2009.5307876

Filename

5307876