A low-power and flexible energy detection IR-UWB receiver for RFID and wireless sensor networks

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1470-1482

  Zou, Zhuo ^a   Mendoza, David Sarmiento ^a   Wang, Peng ^a,b   Zhou, Qin ^a   Mao, Jia ^a   Jonsson, Fredrik ^a   Tenhunen, Hannu ^a   Zheng, Li Rong ^a,b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Energy detection; Internet of Things; low power receiver; sensitivity; ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; BIT ERROR RATE; ENERGY UTILIZATION; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); INTERNET OF THINGS; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TIMING CIRCUITS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

BASEBAND CONTROLLERS; ENERGY DETECTION; IMPULSE RADIO ULTRA WIDEBAND (IR-UWB); LOW POWER RECEIVER; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES; SENSITIVITY; STANDARD CMOS TECHNOLOGY; SYNCHRONIZATION ALGORITHM;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 79959795819     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2011.2142930     Document Type: Article

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