Trends in Ultra-wideband Transceiver Design

Ultra-Wideband Wireless Communications and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 127-153

  Xu, Zhengyuan ^a  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

Achieving design flexibility; Analog digital UWB transceivers; Chip design technology; Differential modulation based transmissions; Digital UWB receivers; Modulation diversity (MD); MUI and channel distortion; Sigma delta conversion; UWB channel estimation and transceiver design techniques

Indexed keywords

MODULATION; TRANSCEIVERS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

CHANNEL DISTORTIONS; CHIP DESIGN; DESIGN FLEXIBILITY; DIFFERENTIAL MODULATION; MODULATION DIVERSITY; SIGMA-DELTA CONVERSION; TRANSCEIVER DESIGN; UWB RECEIVERS; UWB TRANSCEIVER;

RADIO TRANSCEIVERS;

EID: 84982221209     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470028521.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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