Low power, fully differential SiGe IR-UWB transmitter and correlation receiver ICs

Author

Lin, Dayang ; Trasser, Andreas ; Schumacher, Hermann

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electron Devices & Circuits, Ulm Univ., Ulm, Germany

fYear

2011

fDate

5-7 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper a 3.1-10.6 GHz impulse-radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) transmitter and a receiver front-end are presented. The transmitter comprises a differential impulse generator mounted chip-on-board on a dipole fed circular slot antenna. It has a low power consumption of 6.6 mW at 200 MHz impulse repetition rate. The receiver front-end, mounted at the feed-point of another dipole antenna, is realized with a fully differential low noise amplifier, an analog multiplier-based correlator and a template impulse generator. The measurement results show a motion tracking capability in the mm range.

Keywords

Ge-Si alloys; MMIC; antenna feeds; differential amplifiers; dipole antennas; low noise amplifiers; low-power electronics; radio transmitters; semiconductor materials; slot antennas; ultra wideband communication; SiGe; analog multiplier-based correlator; chip-on-board; correlation receiver IC; differential impulse generator; dipole fed circular slot antenna; frequency 3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz; fully-differential IR-UWB transmitter; impulse radio-ultrawideband transmitter; low noise amplifier; low-power IR-UWB transmitter; motion tracking capability; power 6.6 mW; receiver front-end; template impulse generator; Correlation; Dipole antennas; FCC; Generators; Receiving antennas; Transmitters; IR-UWB; correlation; differential; receiver front-end; transmitter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

ISSN

1529-2517

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8293-1

Electronic_ISBN

1529-2517

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.2011.5940611

Filename

5940611