A low power interference robust IR-UWB transceiver SoC for WBAN applications

Yuan Gao, Xin Liu, Yuanjin Zheng, Shengxi Diao, Weida Toh, Yisheng Wang, Bin Zhao, Minkyu Je, Chun Huat Heng

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Abstract

An integrated 3-5 GHz impulse radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) transceiver system on chip (SoC) for wireless body area network (WBAN) applications is presented. To enhance system robustness against narrow band interference (NBI) signals, receiver low noise amplifier (LNA) input matching network is optimized to reject out-band NBI. A noncoherent energy detection scheme using analog squarer with band-pass filtering is utilized to increase the rejection to both in-band/out-band NBI. A low-power pulse synchronization algorithm is implemented in the digital baseband. The proposed transceiver achieves energy efficiency of 0.3 and 4.3 nJ/bit for TX and RX respectively and a receiver sensitivity of -∈92 dBm (BER∈=∈10-3) for UWB on-off keying (OOK) signal at 1 Mb/s pulse rate. The measured maximum in-band/out-band SIR for BER∈=∈10-∈3 is -33 and -∈47 dB, respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationUltra-Wideband and 60 GHz Communications for Biomedical Applications
PublisherSpringer US
Pages23-44
Number of pages22
Volume9781461488965
ISBN (Electronic)9781461488965
ISBN (Print)1461488958, 9781461488958
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Oct 2014
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Impulse radio ultra-wideband (IRUWB)
  • Medical monitoring
  • System on chip (SoC)
  • Transceiver
  • Wireless body area network (WBAN)

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