A 2Gbps RF-correlation-based impulse-radio UWB transceiver front-end in 130nm CMOS

Lei Zhou; Zhiming Chen; Chun Cheng Wang; Fred Tzeng; Vipul Jain; Payam Heydari

doi:10.1109/RFIC.2009.5135491

A 2Gbps RF-correlation-based impulse-radio UWB transceiver front-end in 130nm CMOS

Lei Zhou^*
, Zhiming Chen
, Chun Cheng Wang
, Fred Tzeng
, Vipul Jain
, Payam Heydari

^*Corresponding author for this work

University of California at Irvine

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Abstract

The design of a carrier-less RF-correlation-based IR-UWB TRX front-end in 130nm CMOS is presented. Timing synchronization and coherent demodulation are implemented directly in the RF domain, enabling energy-efficient wireless communication at Gb/s data rates. A 25ps timing resolution is achieved by a two-step synchronizer. Occupying 6.4mm² chip area, the TRX achieves a maximum data rate of 2Gbps and an RX sensitivity of -64dBm with a BER of 10^-5, while requiring only 51.5pJ/pulse in the TX mode and 72.9pJ/pulse in the RX mode.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, RFIC 2009
Pages	65-68
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.2009.5135491
Publication status	Published - 2009
Externally published	Yes
Event	2009 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, RFIC 2009 - Boston, MA, United States Duration: 7 Jun 2009 → 9 Jun 2009

Publication series

Name	Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium
ISSN (Print)	1529-2517

Conference

Conference	2009 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, RFIC 2009
Country/Territory	United States
City	Boston, MA
Period	7/06/09 → 9/06/09

Keywords

CMOS
Correlator
Edge combination
Impulse-radio (IR)-UWB
Pulse generator
RF front-end
Synchronization

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Zhou, L., Chen, Z., Wang, C. C., Tzeng, F., Jain, V., & Heydari, P. (2009). A 2Gbps RF-correlation-based impulse-radio UWB transceiver front-end in 130nm CMOS. In Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, RFIC 2009 (pp. 65-68). Article 5135491 (Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium). https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.2009.5135491

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