An energy-efficient all-digital UWB transmitter employing dual capacitively-coupled pulse-shaping drivers
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Mercier, Patrick Philip; Daly, Denis C.; Chandrakasan, Anantha P.
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This paper presents an all-digital, non-coherent, pulsed-UWB transmitter. By exploiting relaxed center frequency tolerances in non-coherent wideband communication, the transmitter synthesizes UWB pulses from an energy-efficient, single-ended digital ring oscillator. Dual capacitively coupled digital power amplifiers (PAs) are used in tandem to attenuate low frequency content typically associated with single-ended digital circuits driving single-ended antennas. Furthermore, four level digital pulse shaping is employed to attenuate RF sidelobes, resulting in FCC compliant operation in the 3.5, 4.0, and 4.5 GHz IEEE 802.15.4a bands without the use of any off-chip filters or large passive components. The transmitter is fabricated in a 90 nm CMOS process and occupies a core area of 0.07 mm2 . The entirely digital architecture consumes zero static bias current, resulting in an energy efficiency of 17.5 pJ/pulse at data rates up to 15.6 Mb/s.
Date issued
2009-05Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Microsystems Technology LaboratoriesJournal
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Citation
Mercier, P.P., D.C. Daly, and A.P. Chandrakasan. “An Energy-Efficient All-Digital UWB Transmitter Employing Dual Capacitively-Coupled Pulse-Shaping Drivers.” Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of 44.6 (2009): 1679-1688. © Copyright 2010 IEEE
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INSPEC Accession Number: 10667200
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0018-9200