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A 6μw, 100kbps, 3-5ghz, UWB impulse radio transmitter

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Rajeev K. Dokania,

Xiao Y. Wang,

Carlos I. Dorta-Quinones,

Waclaw Godycki,

Siddharth G. Tallur,

Alyssa B. ApselAuthors Info & Claims

ISLPED '10: Proceedings of the 16th ACM/IEEE international symposium on Low power electronics and design

Pages 91 - 94

https://doi.org/10.1145/1840845.1840865

Published: 18 August 2010 Publication History

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In this paper we present the design and the measured results for a FCC-compliant UWB impulse transmitter (Tx) designed to operate in the 3-5GHz range. The transmitter uses a fast start-up, duty-cycled, current-starved ring-oscillator topology. A triangular pulse-shaping technique is utilized for spectrum-shaping to facilitate FCC compliance. The designed transmitter can be controlled to operate in 3-different bands centered at 3.5GHz, 4.0GHz, and 4.5GHz, with good inter-band isolation. The chip was fabricated in a 90nm CMOS technology, and was measured to consume only 2.8µW of leakage power and 2.9µW at 100Kbps of dynamic power. The data-rate can be scaled up to 5Mbps at 29pJ/pulse, while still staying compliant with FCC-mask even with non-random pulsing. The output voltage swing was measured to be ~450-500mV across a 50& load. The total power consumption of ~6µW at 100Kbps is an order of magnitude better than that of state-of-the-art designs, i.e. ~100µW, operating at same pulse rate.

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ISLPED '10: Proceedings of the 16th ACM/IEEE international symposium on Low power electronics and design

August 2010

458 pages

ISBN:9781450301466

DOI:10.1145/1840845

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