The Design of Low Power Ultra-Wideband Transceiver

Abstract

In this thesis, three works are presented. They are related to different aspects of UWB. In the first work, we will present a sub 1 GHz on-off keying (OOK) UWB transceiver based on threshold detection targeting for low data rate energy efficient wireless communication. In the second work, a UWB beamforming transmitter is proposed in view of the voltage headroom reduction due to device downscaling. In the third work, a UWB beamforming receiver is proposed. With beamforming, much efficient energy could be achieved by directing the transmitter or receiver power in the desired direction.