A fully integrated 802.15.4a IR-UWB Transceiver in 0.13µm CMOS with digital RRC synthesis

Abstract

An 802.15.4a-compliant fully integrated coherent IR-UWB transceiver with digital RRC synthesis that supports 3 channels in Band Group 1 is presented. The transceiver consists of an RF front-end including frequency synthesizer and a digital back-end implemented in 0.13 μm CMOS. It achieves a 20 m radio distance (PER<10 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> ), with <18 cm ranging error.