A Noncoherent UWB Communication System for Low Power Applications

  • Yang, Suck-Chel (School of Electronic Engineering Soongsil University) ;
  • Park, Jung-Wan (School of Electronic Engineering Soongsil University) ;
  • Moon, Yong (School of Electronic Engineering Soongsil University) ;
  • Lee, Won-Cheol (School of Electronic Engineering Soongsil University) ;
  • Shin, Yo-An (School of Electronic Engineering Soongsil University)
  • Published : 2004.09.30

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a noncoherent On-Off Keying (OOK) Ultra Wide Band (UWB) system based on power detection with noise power calibration for low power applications. The proposed UWB system achieves good bit error rate performance which is favorably comparable to that of the system using the ideal adaptive threshold, while maintaining simple receiver structure, In addition, low power Analog Front-End (AFE) blocks for the proposed noncoherent UWB transceiver are proposed and verified using CMOS technology. Simulation results on the pulse generator, delay time generator and 1-bit Analog-to-Digital (AID) converter show feasibility of the proposed UWB AFE system.

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