A novel CMOS/BiCMOS UWB pulse generator and modulator

Author

Zheng, Yuanjin ; Dong, Han ; Xu, Yong Ping

Author_Institution

Inst. of Microelectron., Singapore, Singapore

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

6-11 June 2004

Firstpage

1269

Abstract

In this paper, a new low voltage high frequency pulse generation circuit is proposed which can be fully integrated in CMOS and/or BiCMOS process. The circuit is able to generate symmetrical pulses those are the second-order derivative of Gaussian pulses with a bandwidth up to 5 GHz and having sufficient swing for UWB applications. Based on the proposed pulse generator, a novel BPSK pulse modulator is also proposed and can be directly used in UWB transmitter. Simulation results based on a 0.18-μm CMOS/BiCMOS technology confirm their performance.

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; CMOS integrated circuits; broadband networks; integrated circuit modelling; pulse generators; pulse modulation; transmitters; 0.18 micron; CMOS-BiCMOS UWB pulse generator; CMOS-BiCMOS UWB pulse modulator; Gaussian pulses; UWB applications; bandwidth; low voltage high frequency pulse generation circuit; second order derivative; symmetrical pulses; transmitter; Bandwidth; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Binary phase shift keying; CMOS process; CMOS technology; Frequency; Low voltage; Pulse circuits; Pulse generation; Pulse modulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 2004 IEEE MTT-S International

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8331-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2004.1339220

Filename

1339220