An inductorless CMOS UWB pulse generator with active pulse shaping circuit

Author

Bourdel, Sylvain ; Vauche, R. ; Ramos, O. ; Muhr, E. ; Gaubert, Jean ; Dehaese, Nicolas ; Barthelemy, Herve

Author_Institution

Aix-Marseille Univ., Marseille, France

fYear

2013

fDate

15-18 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

175

Lastpage

179

Abstract

The design of an UWB pulse generator is presented. The pulse generator is based on an elementary pulse combination technique which enables the emitted pulse to be precisely shaped. This technique is implemented with no inductor or passive network and can be used to ensure regulation compliance. This generator has been fully integrated in a 0.13 μm CMOS standard technology. Its area is 0.06mm² only and it can be programmed to synthesize different pulse shapes. For FCC compliant pulse shapes, the maximum measured 10dB bandwidth is 3.5GHz, and the maximum peak to peak magnitude is 220mV. The measured maximal power consumption is 87.6mW at 800MHz Pulse Repetition Frequency (PRF).

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; pulse generators; pulse shaping circuits; ultra wideband technology; CMOS standard technology; FCC compliant pulse shapes; active pulse shaping circuit; bandwidth 3.5 GHz; elementary pulse combination technique; frequency 800 MHz; inductorless CMOS UWB pulse generator; power 87.6 mW; pulse repetition frequency; size 0.13 mum; CMOS integrated circuits; CMOS technology; FCC; Pulse generation; Pulse measurements; Shape; Tuning; CMOS; FCC; Impulse Radio; Pulse Generator; Pulse Shaping; UWB;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

ISSN

2162-6588

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUWB.2013.6663843

Filename

6663843