A discrete-time digital-IF interference-robust ultrawideband pulse radio transceiver architecture

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 481-494

  Jha, Anuranjan ^a,b   Zhang, Frank ^a,c   Hsieh, Tien Ling ^c,d   Gharpurey, Ranjit ^d   Kinget, Peter R ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b SILICON LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

^d The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital to analog converter (DAC); Interference detector; Pulse radio; Pulse shaping; Sinc filter; Time interleaving; Ultrawideband (UWB) transceiver

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL RADIO; DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERSION; GROUP DELAY; IEEE STANDARDS; LOW PASS FILTERS; PULSE SHAPING; RADIO INTERFERENCE; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCIES; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES; PULSE RADIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; SINC FILTER; TIME-INTERLEAVING; TRANSCEIVER ARCHITECTURE; ULTRA-WIDEBAND TRANSCEIVER;

RADIO TRANSCEIVERS;

EID: 76849086112     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2009.2027802     Document Type: Article

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