An ultra low power and high efficiency UWB transmitter for WPAN applications

Author

Diao, Shengxi ; Zheng, Yuanjin

Author_Institution

Inst. of Microelectron., A*STAR (Agency for Sci., Technol. & Res.), Singapore

fYear

2008

fDate

15-19 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

334

Lastpage

337

Abstract

This paper presents a single-chip transmitter for ultra wide band (UWB) wireless communication system based on impulse radio technology. It is implemented in a CMOS 0.18-mum technology with 3.3 V voltage supply. The transmitter can generate UWB pulse with 2 GHz bandwidth with 20-dB side-lobe rejection. The differential output swing is 7.2 V under 100 Omega loads. The average current consumption of the transmitter is 224 muA at 1 Mbps with the highest energy efficiency of 10.5%.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; low-power electronics; personal area networks; pulse generators; ultra wideband communication; WPAN applications; bandwidth 2 GHz; high efficiency UWB transmitter; impulse radio technology; pulse generator; size 0.18 mum; ultra low power UWB transmitter; ultra wide band wireless communication system; voltage 3.3 V; voltage 7.2 V; CMOS technology; Energy efficiency; FCC; Frequency; Oscillators; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse generation; Radio transmitters; Ultra wideband technology; Wireless sensor networks; CMOS; Ultra Wideband (UWB); WPAN; impulse radio; low data rate; low power; pulse generator; transmitter;

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.2008.4681860

Filename

4681860