Low power tunable CMOS I-UWB transmitter design
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Sarmiento, David M.; Nejad, Majid Baghaei; Tenhunen, Hannu; Li-Rong Zheng
- Source
- Norchip 2007 Norchip, 2007. :1-4 Nov, 2007
- Subject
- Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Pulse generation
FCC
Packaging
Pulse modulation
Radio transmitters
CMOS technology
Filters
Communication system control
Tunable circuits and devices
System-on-a-chip
UWB
Transmitter
Impulse radio
Pulse Generation
- Language
In this paper an on-chip tunable Impulse-Ultra Wide Band Transmitter is presented. It is capable of modifying the power emission to comply with the FCC regulations at different pulse rates up to 300 MHz using two external controls. The maximum power consumption is 1.2 mW and 142 μW at 300 MHz and 10 MHz PRF respectively with a leakage current of 100 nA. The prototype has been designed in 0.18 UMC technology and placed in a QFN lead-less package.