• DocumentCode
    2571176
  • Title

    A 0.36W 6b up to 20GS/s DAC for UWB Wave Formation

  • Author

    Baranauskas, Dalius ; Zelenin, Denis

  • Author_Institution
    Pulse~Link Inc., Carlsbad, CA
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    6-9 Feb. 2006
  • Firstpage
    2380
  • Lastpage
    2389
  • Abstract
    A 6b up to 20GS/s DAC is presented. The DAC is used for direct synthesis of modulated waveforms for UWB communication. The DAC has a current-steering architecture for achieving 20GS/s, a 1.8V power supply, a 4:1 MUX for reducing the line data rate, and BIST. Fabricated in a SiGe process, it consumes 0.36W and has a FOM of 0.28pJ
  • Keywords
    Ge-Si alloys; digital-analogue conversion; ultra wideband communication; 0.28 pJ; 0.36 W; 1.8 V; 6 bit; MUX; SiGe; built-in self-test; current-steering architecture; digital-to-analog converter; direct synthesis; line data rate; ultrawideband communication; ultrawideband wave formation; Circuit simulation; Clocks; Delay; Gaussian processes; Physical layer; Power supplies; Resistors; Switches; Temperature; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2006. ISSCC 2006. Digest of Technical Papers. IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • ISSN
    0193-6530
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0079-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696301
  • Filename
    1696301