A low-power high-speed ultra wideband pulse radio system

Author

Tang, Wei ; Culurciello, Eugenio

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng. Dept., Yale Univ., New Haven, CT, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

24-27 May 2009

Firstpage

1916

Lastpage

1916

Abstract

We present a low-power high-speed ultra-wideband (UWB) pulse radio transmission test platform. The transmitter circuit is fabricated on the Peregrine semiconductors 0.5 micron silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) CMOS process and packaged in a DIP16 package. 12.5 Mbps data rate of wireless transmission is achieved. The power consumption of the transmitter is 10 mW when the pulse rate is 90 MHz. The core circuit size is 70 mum by 130 mum. The transmission distance is in excess of 4 m. The circuit is a transformative technology candidate for high-data rate and low power wireless biomedical applications.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; ultra wideband communication; Peregrine semiconductors; bit rate 12 Mbit/s; frequency 90 MHz; low-power high-speed ultra wideband pulse radio system; silicon-on-sapphire CMOS process; transmitter; wireless biomedical applications; wireless transmission; Circuits; Communication system control; Field programmable gate arrays; Graphical user interfaces; Pulsed power supplies; RF signals; Radio transmitters; System testing; Ultra wideband technology; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2009. ISCAS 2009. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Taipei

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3827-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3828-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5118156

Filename

5118156