A 400uW 10Mbits/s CMOS UWB impulse radio transmitter for wireless sensor networks

Author

Anis, M. ; Tielert, R. ; Wehn, N.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Microelectron. Syst. Design, Univ. of Technol. Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern

Volume

2

fYear

2008

fDate

10-12 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

33

Lastpage

35

Abstract

This paper presents fully integrated CMOS single band UWB impulse radio transmitter for low power and medium data rate wireless sensor network. The pseudo random pattern of UWB impulses are generated during switch on-time of on-off keying modulation. The UWB pulse generator is based on combination of multiple pulses to achieve chirped UWB impulse of nearly flat UWB spectrum. The test structure was implemented in 0.18 um CMOS process. It consumes 400 uW at 10 Mbits/s data rate of on-off keying modulated data pattern.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; radio transmitters; ultra wideband communication; wireless sensor networks; CMOS; UWB pulse generator; bit rate 10 Mbit/s; impulse radio transmitter; on-off keying modulation; power 400 muW; pseudo random pattern; size 0.18 mum; switch on-time; wireless sensor networks; Bandwidth; Chirp; Energy consumption; Frequency; Pulse generation; Radio transmitters; Shape; Switches; Ultra wideband technology; Wireless sensor networks; Low power; glitch generator; impulse generator; pseudo random pattern;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultra-Wideband, 2008. ICUWB 2008. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hannover

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2216-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1827-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUWB.2008.4653345

Filename

4653345