An ultra-low-power UWB IR pulse receiver using 65nm CMOS technology

Author

Al Kadi Jazairli, Mohamad ; Flandre, Denis

Author_Institution

Inf. & Commun. Technol., Electron. & Appl. Math. (ICTEAM), Univ. Catholique de Louvain Louvain-La-Neuve, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium

fYear

2013

fDate

20-21 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents an ultra-low-power receiver for low data rate and short distance IR-UWB pulses. A non-coherent architecture allows the implementation of low-power and low-complexity receiver. The LNA is designed to enable switching between two gain modes. The designed LNA can achieve up to 8dB voltage gain. The energy detector is implemented using three stages: a squarer, an envelope detector and a comparator. The total power consumption of the LNA and the energy detector is less than 0.7mW at IV supply voltage.

Keywords

comparators (circuits); low noise amplifiers; power consumption; radio receivers; ultra wideband antennas; CMOS technology; LNA; comparator; data rate; energy detector; gain 8 dB; low-complexity receiver; low-power receiver; noncoherent architecture; power 0.7 mW; power consumption; short distance IR-UWB pulses; size 65 nm; ultralow-power UWB IR pulse receiver; voltage 1 V; CMOS integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Envelope detectors; Power demand; Receivers; Threshold voltage; Impulse radio; UWB; low power; receiver;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Faible Tension Faible Consommation (FTFC), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Paris

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6105-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FTFC.2013.6577758

Filename

6577758