A low-power baseband ASIC for an energy-collection IR-UWB receiver

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1721-1733

  Barras, David ^a   Meyer Piening, Robert ^b   Von Bueren, George ^a   Hirt, Walter ^c   Jaeckel, Heinz ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Sensirion AG   (Switzerland)

^c IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Baseband processor; Ber; CORDIC algorithm; Non coherent demodulation; Quadricorrelation; SNR estimate; Synchronization; Ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION; BASEBAND PROCESSOR; BER; CORDIC ALGORITHM; NON-COHERENT DEMODULATION; QUADRICORRELATION; SNR ESTIMATE;

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DEMODULATION; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; MULTICARRIER MODULATION; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SYNCHRONIZATION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 67649657693     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2020199     Document Type: Article

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