An energy-efficient all-digital UWB transmitter employing dual capacitively-coupled pulse-shaping drivers

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1679-1688

  Mercier, Patrick P ^a   Daly, Denis C ^a   Chandrakasan, Anantha P ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

Author keywords

All digital; Capacitive combining; Capacitive coupling; IR UWB; Pulse based; RF; Transmitter; Ultra wideband (UWB); Wireless

Indexed keywords

ALL-DIGITAL; CAPACITIVE COMBINING; CAPACITIVE COUPLING; IR-UWB; PULSE-BASED; RF; WIRELESS;

COUPLED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL FILTERS; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; PASSIVE FILTERS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; TRANSMITTERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 67649643464     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2020466     Document Type: Article

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