A Low-Cost UWB Radar System for Sensing Applications

Author

Reisenzahn, Alexander ; Buchegger, Thomas ; Scherrer, David ; Matzinger, Stefan ; Hantscher, Sebastian ; Diskus, Christian

Author_Institution

Inst. for Microelectron., Johannes Kepler Univ., Linz

fYear

2006

fDate

24-27 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

299

Lastpage

302

Abstract

A new low-cost pulse based ultra-wideband radar system working up to 6.4 GHz has been developed. The main focus was on the use of cheap off the shelf components. Pulse generation in the transmitter was solved with a simple transistor circuitry. The down conversion in the receiver is realized with a sampling phase detector combined with a direct digital synthesizer. To control the radar system and for transmitting the digitized data to the PC a USB-controller is used

Keywords

direct digital synthesis; phase detectors; pulse generators; ultra wideband radar; USB-controller; direct digital synthesizer; down conversion; phase detector sampling; pulse generation; pulse-UWB radar system; receiver; sensing application; transistor circuitry; transmitter; ultrawideband system; Circuits; Detectors; Phase detection; Pulse generation; Radar detection; Sampling methods; Synthesizers; Transmitters; Ultra wideband radar; Ultra wideband technology; pulse generator; radar; sampling down converter; sampling phase detector; ultra wideband (UWB);

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.2006.281566

Filename

4059461