A fully monolithic 3.1-10.6 GHz UWB Si/SiGe HBT Impulse-UWB correlation receiver

Author

Dederer, J. ; Schleicher, B. ; Trasser, A. ; Feger, T. ; Schumacher, H.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electron Devices & Circuits, Univ. of Ulm, Ulm

Volume

1

fYear

2008

fDate

10-12 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

33

Lastpage

36

Abstract

A 3.1-to-10.6 GHz Impulse-UWB correlation receiver in a 0.8 mum Si/SiGe HBT technology is presented. The fully monolithic receiver with 0.8mm² chip size comprises a low-noise amplifier with maximum noise figure of 3.2 dB, two single-ended to differential converters, an analog correlator and a template pulse generator approximating the fifth-derivative of a Gaussian impulse. It operates with pulse repetition rates up to 900 MHz (IF bandwidth limited) with a total power consumption of 200 mW.

Keywords

Ge-Si alloys; MMIC; elemental semiconductors; heterojunction bipolar transistors; low noise amplifiers; radar receivers; radio receivers; Si-SiGe; analog correlator; differential converters; frequency 3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz; low-noise amplifier; monolithic UWB HBT impulse-UWB correlation receiver; template pulse generator; Bandwidth; Correlators; Energy consumption; Germanium silicon alloys; Heterojunction bipolar transistors; Low-noise amplifiers; Noise figure; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse generation; Silicon germanium;

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.2008.4653279

Filename

4653279