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Design and Optimization of Dual-Band Energy-Efficient OOK UWB Transmitter Via PSO Algorithm

Dalenda Ben Issa

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3804-1003

University Laboratory LETI-ENIS, ENIS, University of Sfax, Street of Soukra 3.5 Km, 3038 Sfax, Tunisia

E-mail Address: dalenda_benissa@yahoo.fr

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Mounir Samet

University Laboratory LETI-ENIS, ENIS, University of Sfax, Street of Soukra 3.5 Km, 3038 Sfax, Tunisia

E-mail Address: mounir.samet@enis.rnu.tn

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218126620300093Cited by:3 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

A CMOS ON–OFF-keying 3–10.6-GHz transmitter with low power consumption and low complexity used to Impulse Radio Ultra-Wide Band (IR-UWB) communication system is presented in this work. This architecture is designed and optimized via particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. The IR-UWB transmitter is adapted to generate a high bandwidth frequency and it has a band switching capability. It consists of a switching inductance–capacitance voltage-controlled oscillator (LC_VCO), a pulse generator circuit, an injection-locked frequency divider (ILFD) circuit, a buffer and an antenna. The VCO is switched ON/OFF by the pulse signal produced by a generator circuit which is realized through synchronizing the received data by a clock signal. The used technique for transmitting a discontinuous signal is based on a complementary switch-mode ON–OFF LC_VCO, whose main advantage is to reduce power consumption. In this work, a best agreement between the results of the optimization technique and those of the simulation is obtained. The simulated results illustrate a signal of pulse width of 2.5 ns and a pulse repetition rate (PRR) of 200 MHz. The output spectra are centered at 4-GHz and 8-GHz frequencies with 1,332-MHz and 1,350-MHz bandwidths, respectively. The peak-to-peak amplitude of a UWB signal output is 154mV. The IR-UWB transmitter power consumption is 11.4mW which corresponds to the consumption energy of 28.5 pJ/pulse @ 200MHz. The power spectral densities (PSDs) of the output signals of both circuits viz. ON–OFF LC_VCO and ILFD are less than $- 41.3$ $- 41.3$ dBm/MHz, which agreed well with the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) regulation. The transmitter design is well implemented using a TSMC 0.18- $μ$ $μ$ m CMOS process technology in an Advanced Design System (ADS).

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