Title :
CMOS impulse radio receiver front-end
Author :
Meisal, Kjetil ; Limbodal, Claus ; Lande, Tor Sverre ; Wisland, Dag T.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Informatics, Oslo Univ., Norway
Abstract :
Low power-impulse radio receiver front ends are hard to implement in standard CMOS. In this paper we present a simple thresholding solution exploring simple inverter structures. The ultra wide band impulse radio receiver front end consists of a LNA, integrator and thresholding pulse shaper all in standard digital CMOS technology. The continuous time front-end is designed to work with a RAKE receiver for low power ultra wide band applications.
Keywords :
CMOS digital integrated circuits; integrating circuits; low noise amplifiers; low-power electronics; pulse shaping; radio receivers; CMOS impulse radio receiver; RAKE receiver; digital CMOS technology; integrator; low noise amplifier; thresholding pulse shaper; Bandwidth; CMOS technology; Delay; Inverters; Narrowband; Pulse shaping methods; Receivers; Signal sampling; Ultra wideband technology; Wireless communication;
Conference_Titel :
NORCHIP Conference, 2005. 23rd
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0064-3
DOI :
10.1109/NORCHP.2005.1597007
