A high band non-coherent impulse radio UWB receiver

Author

Klymenko, Oleksiy ; Fischer, Gunter ; Martynenko, Denys

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Innovative Mikroelektron. (IHP), Frankfurt Oder

Volume

3

fYear

2008

fDate

10-12 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

25

Lastpage

29

Abstract

This paper describes a monolithic integrated non-coherent receiver intended for impulse radio (IR) Ultra-wide band (UWB) applications including indoor communication and indoor localization. The receiver operates in the higher UWB band centered at 7.68 GHz and it is optimized for a pulse bandwidth of about 1.5 GHz. The overall gain of the receiver amplification chain can be set up to 56 dB in 16 steps via a digital 4-bit interface. A dedicated ldquoleading edgerdquo-detector supports precise indoor localization in conjunction with an appropriate UWB transmitter. A fast comparator indicates the exceeding received signal beyond a threshold set by an internal digital-to-analogue converter (DAC). The circuit was fabricated in 0.25 mum SiGe:C BiCMOS technology.

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; carbon; digital-analogue conversion; radio receivers; silicon compounds; ultra wideband communication; BiCMOS technology; SiGe:C; UWB radio; UWB transmitter; bandwidth 1.5 GHz; digital-to-analogue converter; frequency 7.68 GHz; impulse radio ultra-wide band application; indoor communication; indoor localization; leading edge detector; monolithic integrated noncoherent receiver; pulse bandwidth; receiver amplification chain; size 0.25 mum; Bandwidth; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Data communication; Dynamic range; Logistics; Narrowband; Radio frequency; Receivers; Ultra wideband technology; Wireless sensor networks; Ultra-wide band; impulse radio; non-coherent receiver;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUWB.2008.4653408

Filename

4653408