WiMedia UWB technology: 480Mb/s wireless USB

Author

Leenaerts, D. ; van de Beek, R. ; Bergervoet, J. ; Kundur, H. ; van der Weide, G.

Author_Institution

NXP Semicond. Res., Eindhoven

fYear

2007

fDate

9-11 Dec. 2007

Firstpage

8

Lastpage

12

Abstract

Since the FCC opened up the spectrum for Ultra Wide Band (UWB) operation in the 3.1 to 10.6 GHz range, several standards have been proposed to realize moderate and high rate short-range communication systems. Under the WiMedia umbrella, industry incorporated UWB as the technology to achieve high data rates up to 480 Mbps for wireless USB v2.0 applications. The WiMedia standard uses multi-band QPSK-OFDM modulated sub-bands of 528 MHz. A fast frequency-hopping scheme is applied to achieve efficient and robust communication links up to 10 m distance. Co-existence and co-habitance with other communication standards as GSM/WCDMA and WLAN/BT/GPS is an important but challenging system requirement, next.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; code division multiple access; field buses; frequency hop communication; quadrature phase shift keying; telecommunication standards; ultra wideband communication; GSM/WCDMA; WLAN/BT/GPS; WiMedia UWB technology; WiMedia standard; bit rate 480 Mbit/s; frequency 3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz; frequency-hopping scheme; multiband QPSK-OFDM; short-range communication systems; telecommunication standards; ultra wide band technology; wireless USB; Communication standards; FCC; Frequency; GSM; Multiaccess communication; Robustness; Ultra wideband communication; Ultra wideband technology; Universal Serial Bus; Wireless LAN; BiCMOS; CMOS; UWB; transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio-Frequency Integration Technology, 2007. RFIT 007. IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Rasa Sentosa Resort

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1307-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1308-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIT.2007.4443907

Filename

4443907