Architectures for low power ultra-wideband radio receivers in the 3.1-5GHz band for data rates < 10Mbps

• Published in: Proceedings of the 2004 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (IEEE Cat. No.04TH8758) pp. 280 - 285
• Main Authors: Verhelst, Marian, Vereecken, Wim, Steyaert, Michiel, Dehaene, Wim
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 09.08.2004; IEEE; Association for Computing Machinery
• Series: ACM Conferences
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Baseband; Bit error rate; Design. Technologies. Operation analysis. Testing; Electronics; Energy consumption; Exact sciences and technology; FCC; Frequency; Hardware > Communication hardware, interfaces and storage; Integrated circuits; Noise figure; Radio communication; Receivers; Semiconductor electronics. Microelectronics. Optoelectronics. Solid state devices; Ultra wideband technology; Wireless communication; architectures; receiver; ultra-wideband; Performance evaluation; Wide band circuit; Power consumption; Bit error rate; Base band; Radio receivers; Low-power electronics; Gain; Radio communication; Ultra wide band
• ISBN: 9781581139297; 1581139292
• DOI: 10.1145/1013235.1013305

This paper compares different receiver architectures for UWB radio communication in the 3.1-5GHz band, targeting data rates up to 10Mbps, in terms of their BER performance and power consumption. A receiver, in which some correlations are carried out in the analog domain seems to outperform a fully digital receiver, commonly suggested for baseband UWB. This paper proves that for equal processing gain requirements the partially analog receiver consumes 7 times less power per received bit than the fully digital one.