In this paper, we present a wideband on-chip K-band RF front-end including a transmitter and receiver for vehicular FMCW radar applications using 0.18μm CMOS process. To achieve wideband performance, an RC feedback circuit is applied to the input stage of amplifiers, as well as wideband passive circuits such as Marchand type baluns and Wilkinson type power dividers to the mixer LO port and tran...

This paper presents a software-defined radio testbed for the physical layer of wireless LAN standards. All baseband physical layer functions have been successfully mapped on a Pentium 4 processor that performs these functions in real-time. This has been tested in combination with a CMOS integrated wideband analog front-end containing a low noise amplifier, downconversion mixers and filters. The...

Transmitter and receiver circuits operating at 11 GHz system clock rate are described. These circuits, fabricated in a 0.8 μm SiGe-HBT technology, are the key elements of a radar head using a new ultra wideband principle.

This report focuses on Ultra-Wideband Impulse Radio technology and more specifically focuses on the receiver architecture for these systems. Traditionally digital receiver architectures require analog-to-digital converters (ADC) running at very high sampling frequencies and therefore are not the most efficient and power friendly architectures. Few alternative receiver architectures addressing t...

Bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) using (bi-)orthogonal signals is especially well suited for the application in impulse-radio ultra-wideband transmission systems, which typically operate in the power-limited regime and require a very low-complexity transmitter and receiver design. In this paper, we analyze the capacity of BICM using (bi-)orthogonal signals with coherent and noncoherent d...

We consider a multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) wideband Rayleigh block fading channel, where the channel state is unknown to both the transmitter and the receiver. With only an average power constraint, we compute the capacity of this channel and consider it’s interaction with the coherence length, number of transmit and receive antennas and receive signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) per degree ...

Pulsed ALOHA is a form of impulse Ultra-Wideband communication where a bit is carried with each pulse, rather than using a time spreading code. Pulsed ALOHA and Wideband ALOHA are perfect fits to low energy wide-bandwidth communication. They permit energy-efficient higher data rates. Pulsed ALOHA has some unique advantages in collision avoidance and collision tolerance over Wideband ALOHA, when...

In this paper, error-control coding is used with a six-port direct-digital QPSK receiver [1] in an AWGN channel. The direct-conversion wideband six-port millimeter wave receiver proposed herein meets the needs of MMIC mass-market wireless communications. Convolutional code and Turbo code are used as the channel codes for the first time in this type of receiver. The BER results for the convoluti...

This paper presents the baseband receiver design and implementation for the ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless personal area networks (WPAN). In particular, the receiver algorithms, which include frame detection, timing/frequency synchronization, and channel estimation, are designed and implemented. Simulation results demonstrate that the receiver has a packet error rate of less than 8% when Eb/N0 =...