@inproceedings{4dc3e4e81c4f4f6aab4c032cf75626d9,
title = "A 0.32nJ/bit noncoherent UWB impulse radio transceiver with baseband synchronization and a fully digital transmitter",
abstract = "This paper presents a low-power noncoherent ultrawideband (UWB) impulse-radio (IR) transceiver operating at 5GHz in 0.13-μm CMOS. The super-regenerative amplifier (SRA) based energy-detection receiver utilizes early/late detection for a two-step baseband synchronization algorithm. A fully-digital transmitter generates a shaped output pulse of 1GHz 3-dB bandwidth. DLLs provide a PVT-tolerant time-step resolution of 1ns over the entire symbol period and regulate the pulse generator center frequency. Measured results show a receiver efficiency of 0.32nJ/bit at 20.8Mb/s and operation with inputs as low as 70dBm. The transmitter outputs 31dBm (0.88pJ/pulse at 1Mpulse/s) with a dynamic (energy) efficiency of 16pJ/pulse.",
keywords = "Hearing aid, Impulse-radio, SRA, Super-regenerative amplifier, UWB, UWB-IR, low-power, synchronization, transceiver",
author = "Ashutosh Mehra and Martin Sturm and Dan Hedin and Ramesh Harjani",
year = "2013",
month = sep,
day = "9",
doi = "10.1109/RFIC.2013.6569510",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781467360586",
series = "Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium",
pages = "17--20",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, RFIC 2013",
note = "2013 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, RFIC 2013 ; Conference date: 02-06-2013 Through 04-06-2013",
}