UWB SoC co-design with ESD protection

This paper discusses critical aspects for co-design of ultra wideband (UWB) system-on-chip (SoC) and on-chip electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection, which are beyond simple data rate and bandwidth considerations. UWB-ESD co-design techniques and experiment results are presented. The designs were implemented in a commercial 0.18 μm RFCMOS.