A high data rate 130nm CMOS IR-UWB transmitter for inter-chip wireless communication

This paper presents a simple CMOS impulse radio (IR) ultra-wide-band (UWB) transmitter designed in IBM 130nm technology for inter-chip wireless communication. The proposed architecture is composed of two Gaussian mono-cycle pulse generators which are capable of producing ultra short BPSK modulated pulses. The average pulse width is about 152ps and the peak-to-peak amplitude is 404 mV with -10 dB bandwidth of 5 GHz from 5 to 10 GHz. Post-layout simulations using 130nm IBM CMOS RF technology shows that the transmitter operates at 5 Gbps data rate and consumes 5mW under a 1.2V power supply.