A power-efficient all-digital IR-UWB transmitter with configurable pulse shaping by utilizing a digital amplitude modulation technique

Author

Shuli Geng ; Xican Chen ; Woogeun Rhee ; Jongjin Kim ; Dongwook Kim ; Zhihua Wang

Author_Institution

Tsinghua Nat. Lab. for Inf. Sci. & Technol. Inst. of Microelectron., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2012

fDate

12-14 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

85

Lastpage

88

Abstract

This paper presents an all-digital IR-UWB transmitter with high energy efficiency and flexible pulse shaping for OOK modulation systems. A digital amplitude modulation (AM) technique is proposed to enable configurable pulse shaping with a single digital power amplifier (DPA) for low power design. The proposed transmitter implemented in 65nm CMOS achieves the maximum pulse energy of 3pJ/bit and occupies an active area of 0.08mm², meeting the FCC spectrum mask in 3-5GHz UWB band with a PRF of 32MHz.

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; MMIC power amplifiers; amplitude shift keying; field effect MMIC; radio transmitters; ultra wideband technology; CMOS; FCC spectrum mask; OOK modulation systems; PRF; UWB band; configurable pulse shaping; digital AM technique; digital amplitude modulation technique; digital power amplifier; energy efficiency; flexible pulse shaping; frequency 3 GHz to 5 GHz; frequency 35 MHz; power-efficient all-digital IR-UWB transmitter; size 65 nm;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), 2012 IEEE Asian

Conference_Location

Kobe

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPEC.2012.6522633

Filename

6522633