Development of a low-cost, compact planar synchronous receiver for UWB systems

Author

Han, Jeongwoo ; Xu, Rui ; Nguyen, Cam

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

fYear

2006

fDate

9-14 July 2006

Firstpage

1287

Lastpage

1290

Abstract

A new compact, low-cost ultra-wideband (UWB) synchronous receiver for UWB applications is presented. The developed receiver employs a double-sided planar structure, enabling low-cost hybrid MIC integration. It achieves an unprecedented conversion loss of 4.5-7.5 dB (without baseband amplifier) and conversion gain from 6.5-9.5 dB (with amplifier) over a 5.5 GHz RF bandwidth, a dynamic range of more than 50 dB and low harmonic distortion in the baseband output signal. The receiver´s down-converted signals match very close to those down-converted by a commercial digitized oscilloscope, demonstrating its high performance and hence usefulness for various UWB systems

Keywords

radio receivers; ultra wideband communication; 5.5 GHz; RF bandwidth; UWB systems; baseband output signal; digitized oscilloscope; double-sided planar structure; dynamic range; harmonic distortion; low-cost compact ultra-wideband planar synchronous receiver; low-cost hybrid MIC integration; receiver down-converted signals; Bandwidth; Baseband; Dynamic range; Gain; Harmonic distortion; Microwave integrated circuits; RF signals; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency amplifiers; Ultra wideband technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium 2006, IEEE

Conference_Location

Albuquerque, NM

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0123-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2006.1710779

Filename

1710779