Low-power impulse UWB architectures and circuits

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 332-352

  Chandrakasan, Anantha P ^a   Lee, Fred S ^b   Wentzloff, David D ^c   Sze, Vivienne ^a   Ginsburg, Brian P ^d   Mercier, Patrick P ^a   Daly, Denis C ^a   Blázquez, Raúl ^d  

^a USA   (United States)

^b SiTime Corporation   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

Author keywords

; integrated circuits; Analog digital conversions circuits; Communication systems; Digital communication; Digital integrated circuits; Radio communication; Receivers; Transmitters

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL RADIO; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); RADIO COMMUNICATION; RADIO TRANSMISSION; RECEIVERS (CONTAINERS); TIMING CIRCUITS; TRANSMITTERS; VOLTAGE SCALING;

AGGRESSIVE VOLTAGE SCALING; ALL-DIGITAL TRANSMITTERS; DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS; ENERGY-EFFICIENT ARCHITECTURES; HIGH-RATE SYSTEMS; IDENTIFICATION TAGS; LOW-DATA-RATE APPLICATIONS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND COMMUNICATIONS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 62949121719     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2008.2008787     Document Type: Article

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