A multi-modulation low-power FCC/EC-compliant IR-UWB RF transmitter in 0.18-µm CMOS

Author

Barras, David ; Von Bueren, George ; Hirt, Walter ; Jaeckel, Heinz

Author_Institution

Electron. Lab., ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

fYear

2009

fDate

7-9 June 2009

Firstpage

69

Lastpage

72

Abstract

A multi-modulation RF transmitter IC intended for Impulse-Radio UWB is presented. The modulation rates extend up to 10 Mpulses/s for BFSK, 500 Mchips/s for shaped BPSK bursts and 1 Gchips/s for unshaped BPSK bursts. This PLL-based TX achieves a power consumption of 81 pJ/chip. The generated RF signals have spurious-free power spectral densities (PSD) and comply with U.S. and European regulations.

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; field effect MMIC; low-power electronics; phase shift keying; radio transmitters; ultra wideband communication; BPSK bursts; duty-cycled biasing schemes; low-power impulse-radio UWB transmitter; multimodulation CMOS RF transmitter integrated circuit; power consumption reduction; power spectral densities; size 0.18 mum; Binary phase shift keying; FCC; Frequency shift keying; Frequency synthesizers; Phase locked loops; Pulse modulation; Pulse shaping methods; Radio frequency; Radio transmitters; Radiofrequency integrated circuits; CMOS; Impulse Radio Ultra-Wideband; transmitter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, 2009. RFIC 2009. IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

1529-2517

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3377-3

Electronic_ISBN

1529-2517

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.2009.5135492

Filename

5135492