A very low-complexity 0.3-4.4 GHz 0.004 mm 2 all-digital ultra-wide-band pulsed transmitter for energy detection receivers

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2443-2455

  Crepaldi, Marco ^a   Daprá, Davide ^a   Bonanno, Alberto ^a   Aulika, Ilze ^a   Demarchi, Danilo ^b   Civera, Pierluigi ^b  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

IR UWB; small area; transmitter; very low complexity

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE SHIFT KEYING; BANDWIDTH; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MONOPOLE ANTENNAS; TRANSMITTERS;

ENERGY DETECTION; FRACTIONAL BANDWIDTHS; LOW-DATA-RATE APPLICATIONS; ON-CHIP CAPACITORS; PLANAR MONOPOLE ANTENNA; RADIOFREQUENCY SIGNALS; SMALL AREA; VERY LOW COMPLEXITY;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 84867333282     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2012.2188954     Document Type: Article

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