A low-power sigma-delta modulator for wireless communication receivers using adaptive biasing circuitry and cascaded comparator scheme

This paper represents the low-power signal-delta (ΣΔ) modulator for wireless communication receiver applications. The 2nd-order modulator has a single-loop structure with 11 quantization levels. An adaptive biasing scheme of the operational amplifier and cascaded comparator scheme are proposed in order to save the power consumption. The DAC with three-level references including the analog ground voltage can make the modulator be implemented with half of the input capacitances without degradation of linearity characteristics with the help of dynamic element matching technique. Peak SNR values of 74 dB and 68 dB are achieved with the input bandwidths of 615 kHz and 1.92 MHz for CDMA-2000 and WCDMA applications, respectively. The modulator is fabricated in a 0.13-μm standard digital CMOS technology and dissipates 4.3 mA for a single supply voltage of 2.8 V. Jinup Lim was born in Seoul, Korea, in 1973. He received the B.S. and the M.S. degrees in semiconductor engineering from University of Seoul, Seoul, Korea, in 1999 and 2001, respectively. From 2001 to 2002, he worked in GCT Semiconductor Inc., Seoul, Korea. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering at the same university. He received the Best student paper award from IEEE SSCS/EDS Seoul Chapter in 2004 and the Samsung Best paper award third prize in ISOCC 2004. His research area is the design of high-performance discrete-time / continuous-time sigma-delta modulator circuits. Joongho Choi was born in Seoul, Korea, in 1964. He received the B.S. and the M.S. degrees in electronics engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1987 and 1989, respectively. In 1993, he received Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of Southern California, CA, USA. From 1994 to 1996, he worked in IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA. In 1996, he joined the University of Seoul, Seoul, where he is currently a professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. His research area is the design of high-performance analog integrated circuits.     

Design considerations for broadband indoor infrared wireless communication systems

Recently there has been a growing interest in using infrared light for broadband indoor wireless communications. There are two major limitations for establishing a wideband infrared communications link. The first and most important limit is the power requirements of such a link. The second important impairment is the intersymbol interference caused by multipath dispersion. In this paper we address the issue of designing an optimized transmission system to provide the best power efficiency for an infrared link. Important parameters that should be considered for this design and some examples of efficient link designs are discussed. The suggested designs can improve the power efficiency of an indoor infrared link up to 4 to 8 dBo while providing a smaller rms delay spread, more robustness to shadowing and a more uniform distribution of power. Characteristics of the indoor infrared channel depends upon the directions of the receiver. This dependency can be used in designing a direction diversity receiver to decrease the rms delay spread of the received signal and to reduce the effects of noise by using proper combining techniques. We discuss the effects of receiver direction and field-of-view on the channel parameters and suggest a configuration for a direction diversity receiver.     

室内无线光通信信道分析

文章采用基于定点的迭代模型对非定向信道进行分析,得出了具体的迭代公式.在有家具的房间环境中,给出了可视光的增益公式,通过MATLAB编程实现了反射次数k=0、1、2三种情况下的脉冲响应,给出了仿真图形并加以说明.同时又对空房间的三种情况下的脉冲响应进行了仿真,通过与有家具的环境的比较,得出了随房间高度增加,非可视分量也增加的结论.     

Using the node's experience from previous transmissions to improve the communication in an indoor localization system

Although originally the wireless sensor networks (WSN) were designed for transmitting environmental parameters with a low data rate, there is a growing need to use these networks for applications that require high throughput, such as real time localization systems (RTLS).     

一种基于激光通信浮标的潜艇水下双工通信方式

对现有潜艇水下通信技术进行比较分析,提出一种采用无线脉冲激光作为通信载波的系留浮标潜艇水下双工通信方式,并简要描述了该通信方式的应用体制及其可行性.     

无线光通信中的脉冲宽度间隔调制方案

提出一种新的脉冲调制方案——脉冲宽度间隔调制(PWIM),给出了PWIM的符号结构,分析了其在平均发射功率、带宽需求和传输容量等方面的性能,并在加性高斯白噪声信道模型的基础上推导了PWIM的误包率。理论分析与仿真验证表明,PWIM不但在功率利用率和差错性能方面优于OOK和PWM,而且带宽效率和传输容量比PPM和DPIM的更高。     

无线光通信组合脉冲调制的差错性能分析

在简要介绍脉冲位置宽度调制(PPWM)、差分脉冲位置宽度调制(DPPWM)、双幅度脉冲位置调制(DAPPM)和双幅度脉冲间隔调制(DAPIM)等新型组合调制方式的符号结构的基础上,详细推导了它们的误包率表达式,通过数值模拟,在给定模型下分析了以上新型组合调制方式的差错性能.     

无线光通信自适应激光源研究

无线光通信由于其独特的工作原理,具有巨大的潜在应用价值,其中无线光通信的激光器光源技术是关系设备指标特性的关键技术之一。根据自适应可调节激光器的特点进行分析,介绍激光相干合成技术原理,根据无线光通信的工作原理,采用可编程控制器件,为核心设计一种可以降低各种环境干扰的可调激光源。实验结果表明设计的光源输出是稳定的。     

基于以太网的红外无线通信系统

将红外无线通信应用于标准的室内10Base T以太网(Ethernet)中,在点对点红外无线通信的基础上实现了与以太网兼容的红外无线通信系统;通过红外无线适配卡将以太网的曼彻斯特编码转换成适于红外无线传输的4脉冲位置调制编码,同时将以太网帧格式在其物理层上进行处理,把以太网的传输媒质从有线的铜缆双绞线转换为红外光线;并根据红外器件的发光特性,应用光学准直透镜有效地拓展了传输距离。     

42.24 Mbits/s多业务大气传输光通信系统的研制

在实际应用中为满足对多业务大气传输光通信的要求，研究并实现了通信速率达42．24Mbits／s的大气传输光通信系统，该系统能够实现V．35、E1、RS-232／485、以太网以及电话语音数据通信等。从光学收发天线、半导体激光器调制驱动电路、光电二极管(PIN)直接检测电路、通信端机等方面阐述了该系统的基本原理、组成结构以及设计思路等。大气传输通信实验表明，传输距离为500m时，在晴朗的天气条件下该系统能实现宽带、高速、低误码率的信息传输。     

无线激光通信系统USB接口的设计与调试

提出一种无线激光通信系统USB接口的设计方案。该方案采用Cypress公司EZ-USB系列的AN2131Q芯片为核心作为USB外围设备,AN2131Q芯片在USB外围设备上电加载后运行其固件程序,负责管理USB外围设备及其与主机的通信。论述了如何利用该公司的EZ-USB开发板和配套软件调试系统。     

基于聚合物光纤局域网系统的自由空间光通信

设计了与125 Mbps聚合物光纤局域网兼容的自由空间光通信系统,以实现楼宇间的数据通信,克服聚合物光纤传输距离较短的缺点.自由空间光通信包括发射和接收两个部分,发射部分由650 nm半导体激光器,驱动电路和准直扩束镜组成,接收部分由接收透镜和光电探测器组成.半导体激光器的调制发射功率为3 dBm,光电探测器的探测灵敏度为-27 dBm.分析了大气对光信号的衰减以及大气湍流造成的光斑抖动对通信的影响,记录了系统的信号传输波形和通信眼图.实验表明,自由空间光通信可以延长聚合物光纤局域网的通信距离,使其在实际工程中的应用更加灵活.     

Antenna effects on indoor obstructed wireless channels and a deterministic image-based wide-band propagation model for in-building personal communication systems

In this paper, the effects of antenna pattern and antenna polarization on indoor obstructed (OBS) wireless channels are investigated experimentally. Our results show that linearly polarized (LP) directional antennas are more effective in combating multipath components than other types of antennas in OBS channels. The measurement results are verified with a deterministic wide-band propagation model based on image theory that takes into account the effects of building geometry, antenna pattern, and antenna polarization. Preliminary prediction results show that the propagation model holds promise for accurate and efficient in-building wireless channel prediction.     

一种应用于无线通信领域的新型发射机的研制

本文设计的这款新型发射机，可应用于2G／3G移动通信系统，固定宽带接入系统和无线局域网等众多的无线通信领域。该设计采用的是直接射频技术，应用CPLD产生基带所需的数据，锁相环设计产生900MHz的载频信号，并利用ADI公司的AD8345完成正交射频调制。并给出了相应的软件仿真结果和发射机硬件实验模型的测试结果。     

Single frequency wireless power transfer and full-duplex communication system for intracranial epilepsy monitoring

Current clinical neural recording methods which employ wired connections to the external world can be improved by eliminating the wires thanks to integrated circuit and microsystems technology. This study presents design and implementation of such a system which performs wireless power transfer and data transmission for intracranial epilepsy monitoring. Proposed system provides power to the implant by inductive coupling. Full-duplex communication is also performed at the same frequency as the power transfer. Consequently, a system which can transfer power from 10 mm distance with 30% efficiency has been realized. The system supports 400 kbps uplink communication while downlink communication is performed with 1 kbps at the same time. Design challenges for uplink communication in terms of energy-per-bit and interaction between uplink and downlink communication have been discussed in detail to give an insight about the design trade-offs for a full-duplex communication system superposed on a wireless power transfer link.     

To transfer or not to transfer – Service handovers in wireless LAN systems with imperfect movement estimation

In today's networks, mobile terminals may be provided with advanced services. In order to avoid re-initialization from scratch after a handover, the so-called context of these services may either be transferred to the new Wireless LAN access point, or the respective data stream may be forwarded from the service instead. However, committing context transfers for fast terminals infers unnecessary expenses, the same is true for slow nodes with respect to the forwarding method.In this paper, we compare a default decision strategy to the theoretical optimum – that would require perfect prediction of the time to the next handover – as well as to the performance that can be reached with a certain inaccuracy of the prediction.     

无线通讯芯片的RF测试在T2000上的实现方法

随着无线通讯技术的普及和发展,无线通讯芯片的需求量正在不断增长。无线通讯芯片的测试越来越重要。而RF测试是无线通讯芯片中关键的测试,本文基于本公司的射频SOC收发机芯片,详细介绍了无线通信芯片的RF测试在T2000上的实现方法。     

一种产生OCS-DPSK光载毫米波的光纤无线系统

提出了一种产生载波抑制-差分相移键控(OCS-DPSK)光载毫米波的光纤无线系统.建立了OCS-DPSK光载毫米波的产生和传输链路模型,分析了光纤色散的影响,并通过仿真实验验证了系统的可行性.实验结果表明,重复频率为30GHz的OCS-DPSK光载毫米波调制2.5Gb/s基带信号经80km光纤传输后,眼图清晰可见,功率代价为3.7dB.     

光无线通信的光束对准/跟踪技术

本文针对光无线通信在实际应用中存在激光光束对准跟踪困难的问题,重点介绍了国内外普遍采用的三种解决方法:扩束法、多光束法和动态跟踪法,详细分析了这三种方法的实现原理及其应用过程中存在的问题,讨论了进一步提高跟踪系统性能的关键技术和方法。