A 0.18μm CMOS 802.15.4a UWB Transceiver for Communication and Localization

Author

Zheng, Yuanjin ; Arasu, M. Annamalai ; Wong, King-Wah ; The, Yen Ju ; Suan, Andrew Poh Hoe ; Tran, Duy Duong ; Yeoh, Wooi Gan ; Kwong, Dim-Lee

Author_Institution

Inst. of Microelectron., Singapore

fYear

2008

fDate

3-7 Feb. 2008

Firstpage

118

Lastpage

600

Abstract

Recently, IEEE 802.15.4a has specified a UWB PHY for low-rate commutation with ranging capability for wireless personnel area and sensor network applications. Related work is reported on low-rate energy-efficient UWB radios. A combination of the burst position modulation (BPM) and binary phase shift keying (BPSK) is adopted. With different coding rate, bursts per symbol, and chips per burst, the mean pulse repetition rate (PRF) could vary from 3.9 to 62.4MHz for data throughput of 120kHz to 31.2MHz. This work presents an UWB RF transceiver which supports 12 channels, variable date rate, and ranging capability as specified in IEEE802.15.4a. Transceiver IC is implemented in 0.18μm CMOS technology.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; phase shift keying; pulse position modulation; transceivers; ultra wideband communication; BPM; BPSK; CMOS technofogy; IEEE802.15.4a; PRF; UWB transceiver; binary phase shift keying; burst position modulation; pulse repetition rate; size 0.18 mum; wireless personnel area network; wireless sensor network; Binary phase shift keying; CMOS technology; Energy efficiency; Personnel; Phase modulation; Physical layer; Radio frequency; Throughput; Transceivers; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2008. ISSCC 2008. Digest of Technical Papers. IEEE International

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2010-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2011-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSCC.2008.4523085

Filename

4523085