Reconfigurable ultra-wideband transmitter for generation of arbitrary impulse shapes and modulation schemes

Autor: A. T. Ott, C. J. Eisner, M. D. Blech, T. F. Eibert
Jazyk: German<br />English
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Advances in Radio Science, Vol 10, Pp 57-62 (2012)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1684-9965
1684-9973
DOI: 10.5194/ars-10-57-2012
Popis: In this paper a reconfigurable ultra-wideband (UWB) impulse radio (IR) transmitter is presented. The IR signal is synthesized at an intermediate frequency (IF) by employing a multi-Nyquist digital-to-analog converter (DAC) with 12 bit resolution and an update rate of 2.3 GHz. Digital generation of signals in a field programmable gate array (FPGA) guarantees very high flexibility of the reconfigurable design. For upconversion to the radio frequency (RF) band, a first order bandpass (BP) sampling concept and an alternative conventional concept with mixer stages, have been realized. The system enables to generate signals with arbitrary modulation schemes and techniques at an external host personal computer (PC) employing MATLAB. Different measurements using a digitizing oscilloscope have been conducted to demonstrate the performance of the transmitter.
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