一种高频谱利用率的PSWF脉冲组设计

脉冲超宽带(Impulse Radio Ultra-wideband,IR-UWB)技术主要使用脉冲传输信息,脉冲波形的选择影响着整个系统的性能。椭圆球面波函数(Prolate Spheroidal Wave Function,PSWF)脉冲具有频谱灵活可控的特点,在超宽带(Ultra-wideband,UWB)系统中得到了广泛应用。介绍了PSWF的定义和求解算法,针对目前存在的PSWF脉冲组频谱利用率较低的问题,提出了一种高频谱利用率的多频带正交PSWF脉冲组设计方法。仿真结果表明,该方法在满足FCC频谱掩膜条件的同时,有效地提高了PSWF脉冲组的频谱利用率,从而增加了接收端的信噪比。     

OFDM超宽带3.1-4.8GHz CMOS发射机设计

本文介绍一种应用于3.1-4.8GHz 多频带正交频分复用超宽带系统的低功耗射频CMOS发射机芯片的设计和实现。发射机系统主要由电压电流跨导级、正交上变频调制器、有源双转单转换器、输出增益可控功率放大器以及产生正交差分LO信号的除2除法器等模块组成。使用上调制器,双转单及输出放大器分段谐振技术解决3.1-4.8GHz宽带增益平坦度问题;使用源级电阻负反馈镜像跨导解决系统低电压高线性度问题;使用无源电感谐振双转单电路及增益可控放大器进行低功耗设计。测试结果表明,芯片能够提供-10.7到-3.1dBm的功率输出,并且在子带增益平坦度低于3dB;输出三阶交调量最高可达12dBm;不低于30dBc的载波抑制和35dBc以上的边带抑制。芯片采用Jazz 0.18μm射频CMOS工艺流片,包括ESD防护PAD在内芯片总面积为1.74mm2。 在1.8V的电源电压下,芯片总电流为32mA。     

Direction finding receiver for UWB impulse radio signal in multipath environment

In this paper, we propose a direction finding (DF) receiver for ultra wideband impulse radio (UWB‐IR) signal in a realistic multipath environment. The receiver uses an array of antenna, where each antenna is connected to a proposed propagation‐delay estimation structure. The advantage of the proposed structure is that it outputs a trapezoidal signal whose amplitude reflects the propagation delay and thus relaxes the sampling rate requirement of the analog‐to‐digital‐converter (ADC). The angle‐of‐arrival (AOA) is estimated from the vector of propagation delays measured with respect to reference antenna. Because these estimated delays contain outliers, we propose a simple AOA estimation algorithm based on minimum fractional‐distance search. Experimental results based on simulation show that the proposed DF receiver achieves better performance compared with the minimum ?₁‐ and ?₂‐based (least‐squares based) distance search. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A Low‐Complexity 128‐Point Mixed‐Radix FFT Processor for MB‐OFDM UWB Systems

In this paper, we present a fast Fourier transform (FFT) processor with four parallel data paths for multiband orthogonal frequency‐division multiplexing ultra‐wideband systems. The proposed 128‐point FFT processor employs both a modified radix‐2⁴ algorithm and a radix‐2³ algorithm to significantly reduce the numbers of complex constant multipliers and complex booth multipliers. It also employs substructure‐sharing multiplication units instead of constant multipliers to efficiently conduct multiplication operations with only addition and shift operations. The proposed FFT processor is implemented and tested using 0.18 µm CMOS technology with a supply voltage of 1.8 V. The hardware‐ efficient 128‐point FFT processor with four data streams can support a data processing rate of up to 1 Gsample/s while consuming 112 mW. The implementation results show that the proposed 128‐point mixed‐radix FFT architecture significantly reduces the hardware cost and power consumption in comparison to existing 128‐point FFT architectures.     

Design of an Internal Antenna with Near‐Omnidirectional H‐Plane Radiation Pattern over Ultra‐wide Bandwidth

In this paper, an ultra‐wideband internal antenna for use in mobile applications is proposed. The proposed antenna has symmetrical bi‐arm structures printed on the top and bottom of the substrate, and it occupies a compact area of 10 mm × 10 mm × 1 mm. The designed antenna has an impedance bandwidth from 3 GHz to 12 GHz and near omnidirectional radiation patterns over the frequency band of interest. The group delay between two antennas fabricated using the proposed design is less than 0.8 ns, and the maximum gain variation is about 3.16 dB.     

P N IFFT FOR OFDM-BASED UWB SYSTEM

In this letter, P × N-point IFFT is proposed to replace the N-point IFFT and analog frequency conversion in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)-based Ultra-WideBand (UWB) system, and a new algorithm, named fast P × N-point IFFT, is designed to reduce the complexity of the P × N-point IFFT in the proposed scheme.     

用于超宽带介电常数测量的Vivaldi天线设计与仿真

在传统Vivaldi天线结构的基础上,设计了两种适用于混合材料介电常数测量的改进型渐变槽Vivaldi天线以及同轴馈电型对踵Vivaldi天线,并利用三维电磁仿真软件HFSS对这几种Vivaldi天线的性能进行优化分析。通过对不同结构Vivaldi天线的对比,分析结果可以看出这两种改进型渐变槽Vivaldi天线和同轴馈电型对踵Vivaldi天线在频段、带宽、驻波比等方面均达到超宽带介电常数测量系统的设计要求,可应用于测量混合材料的介电常数。     

超宽带室内多径传播信道的有效时域射线模型

在这篇文章中,为超宽带（UWB）室内多径传播信道发展了一种有效的时域射线模型。这种模型是基于衍射的时域均一性几何理论（TD-UTD）技术的。这种技术包含了的几何光学（GO）和UTD的三种基本射线结构,即直射射线,损耗表面的多径反射射线和损耗边缘的绕射射线。我们提供了TD多径反射射线的水平极化和垂直极化的有效近似分析,描述了TD绕射系数。多径反射和绕射的所有路径,每个路径的时延,脉冲波形和幅度和TD路径损耗都可以由一个基于软件的TD射线追踪工具得到。     

基于均值循环卷积特性的UWB信道盲估计算法

该文针对采用码片率抽头间隔的TH-PPM超宽带系统离散信道,利用接收信号的均值循环卷积特性,对UWB信道估计问题进行建模,结合UWB信道的稀疏簇结构,提出一种基于抽头探测的UWB信道盲估计算法,避免了无谓的零抽头估计,改善了算法性能。仿真表明：在低信噪比(0-15dB)的情况下,基于抽头探测算法的MSE比没利用信道结构特征的最小二乘算法平均低约5.5dB;在中等信噪比(15dB)的情况下,基于抽头探测算法的MSE比最小二乘算法平均低约3.5dB,同时基于抽头探测算法还能获得较好的SER(Signal-Error-Ratio)性能。     

适用于超宽带的检测与避让测试平台

文章首先介绍了超宽带技术的特点,分析了目前超宽带工作环境中的干扰问题,引出了缓和干扰的检测与避让机制;接着对欧洲和中国的检测与避让机制的技术要求进行了说明;然后提出了验证检测与避让机制时的面临难点和挑战并给出了解决方案;最后介绍了两种检测与避让测试平台的设计和实现。