A tunable OOK IR-UWB pulse generator in 0.18 µm technology

Author

Radic, Josko ; Djugova, A. ; Nagy, Lukas ; Videnovic-Misic, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. for Power, Electron. & Commun. Eng., Univ. of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

fYear

2013

fDate

15-20 June 2013

Firstpage

188

Lastpage

191

Abstract

A new energy-efficient, tunable impulse radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) pulse generator is investigated in the paper. The low complexity architecture is composed of a data and clock synchronization block, a glitch generator, an impulses combiner, and a pulse shaping filter. It is designed and simulated in low-cost 0.18 μm UMC CMOS technology. The simulation results showed spectrum that covers whole UWB band and fully complies with the corresponding FCC spectral mask. The pulse duration is around 0.8 ns, and the peak-to-peak amplitude is 488 mV on 50 O output load. It has low power consumption of 1.1 mW corresponding to energy consumption of 11 pJ per pulse for 100 MHz pulse repetition frequency (PRF).

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; amplitude shift keying; pulse generators; ultra wideband technology; FCC spectral mask; data-clock synchronization block; energy-efficient tunable impulse radio ultrawideband pulse generator; glitch generator; impulse combiner; low-complexity architecture; low-cost UMC CMOS technology; peak-to-peak amplitude; power 1.1 mW; pulse duration; pulse repetition frequency; pulse shaping filter; resistance 50 ohm; size 0.18 mum; tunable OOK IR-UWB pulse generator; voltage 488 mV; CMOS integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Generators; Transmitters; Ultra wideband technology; Wideband; CMOS integrated circuits; analog RF design; impulse radio ultra wideband (IR-UWB); pulse generator; transmitter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Embedded Computing (MECO), 2013 2nd Mediterranean Conference on

Conference_Location

Budva

ISSN

1800-993X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MECO.2013.6601353

Filename

6601353