Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: A low complexity tuneable pulse generator architecture for sub-GHz UWB applications

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"A low complexity tuneable pulse generator architecture for sub-GHz UWB applications"
by V. Stornelli, R. Minutolo, G. Leuzzi, F. Barcio, M. Montanari
in the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB), 2011, pp. 58 - 62

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles.

This paper contains significant portions of original text from the paper cited below. The original text was copied with insufficient attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission.

Due to the nature of this violation, reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper, and future references should be made to the following article:

"UWB CMOS Monocycle Pulse Generator"
by Fabio Zito, Domenico Pepe, Domenico Zito
in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, Vol. 57, Issue 10, 2010, pp. 2654 - 2664


In this work we present a low-complexity, ultra-wideband (UWB) pulse generator which complies with the Sub-GHz band in FCC regulation. This pulse generator uses a simple common emitter amplifier followed by RC high-pass filter as a differentiator to generate the monocycle pulse directly. The circuit provides a monocycle pulse when activated by a ramp edge of an external trigger signal provided by a dedicated circuit exploiting also the pulse width duration tuneability by varying the edge slope. An ultra-short monocycle pulse of 1ns pulse duration up to tens of nanosends has been demonstrated with reduced ringing levels, and good symmetry. The design is versatile and may be used in a variety of integrated circuits UWB modulation schemes and systems. A discrete element board with commercial components has been implemented as prototype and good agreement between the measured and calculated results was achieved with a 50 mW power consumption from a 3.3V power supply.