Silicon-Based RF Front-Ends for Ultra Wideband Radios

Chapter 1 Introduction. 1.1. Organization of the Book Chapter 2 Ultra Wideband Systems. 2.1. Wireless World of Technologies. 2.2. UWB Applications: high speed short range communication, long range localization. 2.3. UWB Signals. 2.4. Advantages of Ultra Wideband over Narrow-band Systems. 2.5. UWB Transceiver Architecture. 2.6. Challenges. 2.7. Link Budget. References. Chapter 3 UWB Distributed Low Noise Amplifiers (DLNA). 3.1. Wideband LNA Matching. 3.2. Background: Distributed Circuits. 3.3. CMOS Performance optimized DLNA. 3.4. Noise Analysis. 3.5. Linearity Analysis. 3.6. Mesurement Results. 3.7. Summary. References. Chapter 4 Distributed RF Front-End. 4.1. UWB Zero/Low IF Dual Conversion Receivers. 4.2. UWB-DRF. 4.3. Experimental Results. 4.4. Summary. References. Chapter 5 Distributed RF Front-End for UWB Direct Conversion Receiver. 5.1. Distributed RF Front-End for Direct Conversion Receiver. 5.2. Current Equalization to Remove IQ Gain/Phase Imbalances. 5.3. Measurement Results. 5.4. Summary. References. Chapter 6 Distributed Active Power Combiners and Splitters for Multi-Antenna UWB Beamforming Transceivers. 6.1. MA-UWB Transceiver Architectures with Beamforming. 6.2. Distributed Power Combiner and Splitter. 6.3. Experimental Results. 6.4. Summary. References. Chapter 7. Conclusions. Index.