A 9mW high band FM-UWB receiver front-end

Author

Dong, Yunzhi ; Zhao, Yi ; Gerrits, John F M ; Van Veenendaal, Gerrit ; Long, John R.

Author_Institution

Electron. Res. Lab./DIMES, Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft

fYear

2008

fDate

15-19 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

302

Lastpage

305

Abstract

A low-power FM-UWB receiver front-end for low data rate (100 kbps) short-range (<10 m) applications operating in the upper UWB band at 7.45 GHz is described. The front-end comprises a 21 dB gain preamplifier and a 1GHz bandwidth FM demodulator. The measured receiver sensitivity is -86.8 dBm while consuming 9 mW from a 1.8 V supply and -84.3 dBm is achieved at 6 mW power consumption. The 0.88 mm² active area circuit is implemented in 0.25 mum SiGe:C BiCMOS.

Keywords

BiCMOS analogue integrated circuits; Ge-Si alloys; low-power electronics; microwave integrated circuits; preamplifiers; receivers; ultra wideband technology; FM demodulator; FM-UWB receiver front-end; SiGe:C; bit rate 100 kbit/s; frequency 1 GHz; frequency 7.45 GHz; gain 21 dB; power 6 mW; power 9 mW; preamplifier; size 0.25 mum; ultrawideband RF receiver; voltage 1.8 V; Bandwidth; Circuits; Delay; Demodulation; Frequency modulation; Frequency shift keying; Preamplifiers; RF signals; Radio frequency; Wideband; FM demodulator; FM-UWB; bias current reuse; ultrawideband RF receiver front-end;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2008. ESSCIRC 2008. 34th European

Conference_Location

Edinburgh

ISSN

1930-8833

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2361-3

Electronic_ISBN

1930-8833

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ESSCIRC.2008.4681852

Filename

4681852