Digital architecture for an ultra-wideband radio receiver

Author

Blazquez, Raul ; Lee, Fred S. ; Wentzloff, David D. ; Newaskar, Puneet P. ; Powell, Johnna D. ; Chandrakasan, Anantha P.

Author_Institution

Microsystems Technol. Lab., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

6-9 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

1303

Abstract

The paper presents analysis of a digital ultra-wideband (UWB) radio receiver operating in the 3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz band. Analog-to-digital converter (ADC) bit precision is analyzed on two types of UWB signals - OFDM UWB and pulsed UWB - all in the presence of additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and a narrowband interferer in the channel. The paper shows how probability of error and the bit resolution of the ADC can be scaled depending on the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), signal-to-interference ratio (SIR), and the type of UWB signal. It also includes considerations on timing recovery for pulsed UWB.

Keywords

AWGN channels; OFDM modulation; analogue-digital conversion; digital radio; error statistics; radio receivers; radiofrequency interference; synchronisation; 3.1 to 10.6 GHz; ADC bit precision; ADC bit resolution; AWGN; OFDM UWB; SIR; SNR; additive white Gaussian noise; analog-to-digital converter bit precision; digital architecture; error probability; narrowband interferer; pulsed UWB; signal-to-interference ratio; signal-to-noise ratio; timing recovery; ultra-wideband radio receiver; AWGN; Additive white noise; Analog-digital conversion; Narrowband; OFDM; Receivers; Signal analysis; Signal resolution; Signal to noise ratio; Ultra wideband technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2003. VTC 2003-Fall. 2003 IEEE 58th

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7954-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2003.1285233

Filename

1285233