Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers (ISSCC), 2011 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-303-2
DOI :
10.1109/ISSCC.2011.5746210
