Delay-Hopped Transmitted-Reference(DHTR) is an attractive scheme for Ultra-wideband(UWB) systems. It relieves the channel estimation and the synchronization problems, which simplifies the UWB system. This paper presents a platform developed at Delft University of Technology. The purpose of the platform is to supply a hardware environment to implement DHTR UWB components. It can emulate real UWB...

In this Chapter, a short range radar system based on ultra-wideband (UWB) technology is presented. The radar and its applications were reserved during a long time to national defence, air security or weather services domains. Since a few years, with the emergence of new technologies, the radar applications were developed and become known in many sectors of daily life. The arrival of a new techn...

An Ultra-Wideband (UWB) real-time channel sounder architecture is described which allows the measurement of the timevariant radio propagation channel in the extreme wide band ranging from nearly zero to 5 GHz. Synchronous multi-channel operation is supported by excellent timing stability and low power consumption of miniature size LTCC modules comprising custom integrated SiGe HBT circuits. Thi...

Ultra wideband (UWB) is a promising technology for short range and high-speed wireless communications such as home entertainment, wireless video downloading, wireless LAN, wireless USB and so on. This dissertation studied several important issues in the application of UWB technology and its contributions are summarized as follows. First, a 2-stage optimal UWB pulse shaping filter design procedu...

This article presents a new circuit to generate a higherorder derivative Gaussian pulse for the impulse radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) communication systems. This IR-UWB pulse generator is designed and measured with the TSMC 0.18m CMOS process. The circuit is able to generate a symmetrical and low-ringing pulse in a frequency band from 3.1 to 10.6 GHz. Our work shows that the pulse generator’s o...

Ultra-wideband (UWB) is a useful radio technique for sharing frequency bands between radio systems. It uses very short pulses to spread spectrum. However, there is a potential for interference between systems using the same frequency bands at close range. In some regulatory systems, interference detection and avoidance (DAA) techniques are required to prevent interference with existing radio sy...

INTRODUCTION The Ultra wideband (UWB) radio communication is known as a “carrier-free”, “baseband” or “impulse” technology. The basic concept is to transmit and receive an extremely short duration burst of pulses, typically having few tens of picoseconds in duration, with the resulting waveforms extremely broadband in frequency [1]. The UWB systems send a train of pulses with a very low duty cy...

As wireless communication applications require more and more bandwidth, the demand for wideband antennas increases as well. For instance, the ultra wideband radio (UWB) utilizes the frequency band of 3.1-10.6 GHz .In this paper we introduce a new multilayer microstrip antenna for ultra wideband applications. In order to achieve suitable bandwidth, the antenna size is fine for mobile application...

Ultra Wideband Radio (UWB) is an upcoming alternative for wireless communications. Since the Federal Communication Commission in the USA allowed UWB for unlicensed usage in April 2002, more and more companies have started developing UWB systems. The major difference with UWB compared to other RF systems is that UWB sends information with pulses instead of using a carrier wave. The technique is ...