A 21pJ/pulse FCC compliant UWB pulse generator

Author

Shamsa, Yousif ; Serdijn, Wouter A.

Author_Institution

Electron. Res. Lab., Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft, Netherlands

fYear

2010

fDate

May 30 2010-June 2 2010

Firstpage

497

Lastpage

500

Abstract

An LC filter based UWB pulse generator to be implemented in IBM 0.13 μm CMOS technology is presented. A 6^th order elliptical filter approximation of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Ultra Wide Band (UWB) mask is used to generate the transfer function. The filter order is chosen based on mask filling efficiency, component spread and circuit complexity. The impulse response of the filter is used to generate the UWB pulse. The current consumption is 2.8 mA at 1.5 V, at a pulse rate of 200 MHz. The bandwidth of the UWB pulse is 4GHz. The pulse generator operates over the military temperature range (-40°C to 125°C). Monte Carlo analysis simulation results show an acceptable effect of both mismatch and process variations on the UWB pulse.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; Monte Carlo methods; circuit complexity; elliptic filters; masks; pulse generators; radiofrequency integrated circuits; transfer functions; transient response; ultra wideband technology; 6^th order elliptical filter approximation; CMOS technology; Federal Communications Commission; LC filter; Monte Carlo analysis simulation; bandwidth 4 GHz; circuit complexity; current 2.8 mA; energy 21 pJ; frequency 200 MHz; impulse response; mask filling efficiency; pulse FCC compliant UWB pulse generator; transfer function; ultrawide band mask; voltage 1.5 V; Bandwidth; CMOS technology; Complexity theory; FCC; Filling; Filters; Pulse generation; Temperature distribution; Transfer functions; Ultra wideband communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Proceedings of 2010 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Paris

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5308-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5309-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2010.5537598

Filename

5537598