0.6 V Voltage Shifter and Clocked Comparator for Sampling Correlation-Based Impulse Radio UWB Receiver

A 0.6-V voltage shifter and a 0.6-V clocked comparator are presented for sampling correlation-based impulse radio UWB receiver. The voltage shifter is used for a novel split swing level schemebased CMOS transmission gate which can reduce the power consumption by four times. Compared to the conventional voltage shifter, the proposed voltage shifter can reduce the required capacitance area by half and eliminate the non-overlapping complementary clock generator. The proposed 0.6-V clocked comparator can operate at 100-MHz clock with the voltage shifter. To reduce the power consumption of the conventional continuous-time comparator based synchronization control unit, a novel clocked-comparator based control unit is presented, thereby achieving the lowest energy consumption of 3.9 pJ/bit in the correlation-based UWB receiver with the 0.5 ns timing step for data synchronization. key words: impulse radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB), voltage shifter, clocked comparator, low voltage