A 90nm CMOS SoC UWB pulse radar for respiratory rate monitoring

Author

Zito, Domenico ; Pepe, Domenico ; Mincica, Martina ; Zito, Fabio

Author_Institution

Univ. Coll. Cork, Cork, Ireland

fYear

2011

fDate

20-24 Feb. 2011

Firstpage

40

Lastpage

41

Abstract

UWB technology (3.1 to 10.6GHz) allows new applications for both data communication and sensing. Due to their potential in terms of resolution and extremely low level of EIRP spectral density (<; -41.3dBm/MHz), UWB radars are very attractive for a large set of civil and military sensing applications, as ground penetrating, surveillance, localization, intra-wall and through-wall detections and biomedical imaging. Moreover, with respect to continuous-wave (CW) radars, UWB radar transceivers present a lower circuit complexity since no frequency conversions are required, leading to lower power consumption (Pc) for longer battery autonomy.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; biomedical electronics; data communication; system-on-chip; transceivers; ultra wideband radar; CMOS SoC UWB pulse radar; UWB radar transceivers; data communication; frequency 3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz; lower circuit complexity; respiratory rate monitoring; size 90 nm; CMOS integrated circuits; Delay; Pulse generation; Radar antennas; System-on-a-chip; Ultra wideband radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers (ISSCC), 2011 IEEE International

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

0193-6530

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-303-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSCC.2011.5746210

Filename

5746210