Title :
A fully monolithic 3.1-10.6 GHz UWB Si/SiGe HBT Impulse-UWB correlation receiver
Author :
Dederer, J. ; Schleicher, B. ; Trasser, A. ; Feger, T. ; Schumacher, H.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Electron Devices & Circuits, Univ. of Ulm, Ulm
Abstract :
A 3.1-to-10.6 GHz Impulse-UWB correlation receiver in a 0.8 mum Si/SiGe HBT technology is presented. The fully monolithic receiver with 0.8mm2 chip size comprises a low-noise amplifier with maximum noise figure of 3.2 dB, two single-ended to differential converters, an analog correlator and a template pulse generator approximating the fifth-derivative of a Gaussian impulse. It operates with pulse repetition rates up to 900 MHz (IF bandwidth limited) with a total power consumption of 200 mW.
Keywords :
Ge-Si alloys; MMIC; elemental semiconductors; heterojunction bipolar transistors; low noise amplifiers; radar receivers; radio receivers; Si-SiGe; analog correlator; differential converters; frequency 3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz; low-noise amplifier; monolithic UWB HBT impulse-UWB correlation receiver; template pulse generator; Bandwidth; Correlators; Energy consumption; Germanium silicon alloys; Heterojunction bipolar transistors; Low-noise amplifiers; Noise figure; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse generation; Silicon germanium;
Conference_Titel :
Ultra-Wideband, 2008. ICUWB 2008. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hannover
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2216-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1827-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICUWB.2008.4653279
