A Tunable CMOS UWB Pulse Generator

Author

Kim, Hyunseok ; Joo, Youngjoong ; Jung, Sungyong

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng. Dept., Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ

fYear

2006

fDate

24-27 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

109

Lastpage

112

Abstract

A tunable ultra-wideband (UWB) pulse generator is designed and simulated with standard 0.18 mum CMOS technology. By using a voltage controlled delay line (VCDL) technique, the proposed UWB pulse generator can adjust the pulse width, adding flexibility for use with different UWB applications. Moreover, each peak of the proposed UWB pulse is separately controlled so that it complies with the FCC regulation. The proposed UWB pulse generator achieves the fifth-order derivative of the Gaussian pulse and can tune the pulse width from 0.38-ns to 4-ns. In particular, the maximum and minimum pulse widths comply with 3-10 GHz and sub-GHz FCC regulations, respectively

Keywords

CMOS digital integrated circuits; Gaussian processes; circuit tuning; delay lines; microwave generation; microwave integrated circuits; pulse generators; ultra wideband communication; voltage control; 0.38 to 4 ns; 3 to 10 GHz; FCC regulation; Gaussian pulse; UWB pulse generator; VCDL; tunable CMOS; ultra wideband; voltage controlled delay line technique; CMOS technology; Energy consumption; FCC; Gaussian processes; Pulse generation; Pulse shaping methods; Robustness; Space vector pulse width modulation; Tunable circuits and devices; Ultra wideband technology; CMOS; Ultra-wideband (UWB); pulse combination method; pulse generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultra-Wideband, The 2006 IEEE 2006 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Waltham, MA

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0101-1

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0102-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICU.2006.281524

Filename

4059429