Low power 3.1–10.6 GHz IR-UWB transmitter for Gbps wireless communications

作     者：WANG Albert ZHANG Gary 

作者机构：Department of Electrical Engineering University of California Riverside 92521 USA Skyworks Solutions Inc. Irvine CA USA 

出 版 物：《Science China(Information Sciences)》 (中国科学:信息科学(英文版))

年 卷 期：2011年第54卷第5期

页      面：1094-1102页

核心收录：

学科分类：0810[工学-信息与通信工程] 0808[工学-电气工程] 08[工学] 081001[工学-通信与信息系统] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

主　　题：UWB impulse radio BPSK transmitter ESD protection 

摘      要：This paper reviews and discusses the design of a low-power single-full-band (3.1-10.6 GHz) non- carrier impulse-radio ultra wideband (UWB) transmitter featuring 5th-order Gaussian derivative pulse shaping, integrated BPSK modulation, and 2.5 kV whole-chip ESD (electrostatic discharge) protection. The UWB transmitter design has been implemented in a commercial 0.18 μm CMOS technology with a very small die size of 0.25 mm2. The fabricated chips have demonstrated full functionality, extremely low power consumption of 0.14 pJ/p-mV, and an ultra short pulse width of 394 ps. This ESD-protected UWB transmitter has the potential to support wireless streaming to gigabit per second (Gbps).