Project supported by the National Science and Technology Major Project of China(No.2011ZX03004-002-01)
This paper explores an energy-efficient pulsed ultra-wideband(UWB) radio-frequency(RF) front-end chip fabricated in 0.18-μm CMOS technology, including a transmitter, receiver, and fractional synthesizer. The tran...
supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(No.2009AA01Z261);the State Key Laboratory of Wireless Telecommunication,Southeast University.
A wideband receiver RP front-end for IR-UWB applications is implemented in 0.13μm CMOS technology. Thanks to the direct sub-sampling architecture,there is no mixing process.Both LNA and VGA work at RF frequencies.To ...
Project supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(No.2009AA01Z261);the State Key Laboratory of Wireless Telecommunication,Southeast University
A sub-sampling 4-bit 1.056-GS/s flash ADC with a novel track and hold amplifier(THA) in 0.13μm CMOS for an impulse radio ultra-wideband(IR-UWB) receiver is presented.The challenge is in implementing a sub-samplin...
Project supported by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China(No2009ZX03006-009)
A non-coherent receiver for impulse radio ultra-wide band(IR-UWB)is presented.The proposed receiver front-end consists of a high gain LNA,a high frequency detector and an intermediate frequency(IF)amplifier to amp...
supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(No.2007AA01Z2b2)
This paper presents a transmitter IC with BPSK modulation for an ultra-wide band system.It is based on up-conversion with a high linearity passive mixer.Unlike the traditional BPSK modulation scheme,the local oscillat...
Project supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(No.2009AA01Z261);the State Key Laboratory of Wireless Telecommunication,Southeast University,China.
A low jitter,low spur multiphase phase-locked loop(PLL) for an impulse radio ultra-wideband(IR-UWB) receiver is presented.The PLL is based on a ring oscillator in order to simultaneously meet the jitter requiremen...
supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(No.2009AA01Z261);the State Key Laboratory of Wireless Telecommunication,Southeast University.
A high speed sampler for a sub-sampling impulse radio UWB receiver is presented. In this design, the sampler uses a time-interleaved topology with a single track and hold circuit, full custom clock generator, and off-...
supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(No.2007AA01Z2b2).
This paper describes a 4 GHz fractional-N frequency synthesizer for a 3.1 to 5 GHz IR-UWB transceiver. Designed in a 0.18μm mixed-signal & RF 1P6M CMOS process, the operating range of the synthesizer is 3.74 to 4.44...
A 3-5 GHz low power BPSK modulated impulse radio UWB transmitter is implemented in 0.13μm CMOS technology. In this design the amplitude and spectrum of the output impulse are both tunable to solve the special problem...