Concept of an UWB impulse radio B-/QPSK transmitter based on standard logic components

Author

Blech, Marcel D. ; Geier, Daniel ; Eibert, Thomas F.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Radio Freq. Technol., Univ. Stuttgart, Stuttgart

Volume

1

fYear

2008

fDate

10-12 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

225

Lastpage

228

Abstract

An UWB impulse radio (IR) transmitter comprising of standard emitter coupled logic (ECL) components is presented. It has a variable operating frequency ranging from 2-8 GHz and synthesizes Gaussian shaped B-/QPSK modulated impulses. The pulse width as well as the pulse position is variable in steps of 10 ps. This enables the use of the transmitter for laboratory purposes as test system for different IR modulation schemes including basic B-/QPSK, transmitted reference (TR) and pulse position modulation (PPM).

Keywords

emitter-coupled logic; pulse position modulation; pulse width modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; radio transmitters; ultra wideband communication; ECL components; Gaussian shaped B-/QPSK modulated impulse; UWB impulse radio transmitter; frequency 2 GHz to 8 GHz; pulse position modulation; pulse width modulation; standard emitter coupled logic component; FCC; Laboratories; Logic; Pulse modulation; Pulse shaping methods; Quadrature phase shift keying; Radio frequency; Radio transmitters; Shape; Space vector pulse width modulation;

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.2008.4653324

Filename

4653324