DESIGN of a PULSE GENERATOR CIRCUIT for UWB COMMUNICATIONS
Abstract
Generation of very short
pulses with a pulse width in the order of a few nanoseconds or less is a
requirement for an UWB communications system. A pulse generator circuit based
on the step-recovery effect of an RF transistor has been designed for the
0-960-MHz UWB system, and is presented in this paper. The pulse generator
includes a linear RF amplifier with common-emitter topology and a high-pass
filter following the amplifier. Input of the RF amplifier is driven by a clock
signal provided by a function generator. Amplifier output includes positive
amplitude and negative amplitude pulses due to rising and falling edges of the
collector-emitter voltage of the transistor, respectively. Amplifier output is
then fed to a high-pass filter. Low-frequency transitions are further filtered
out, and the output of the high-pass filter is a pulse train consisting of very
short pulses. The pulse width has been measured as about 2.5 ns using a 300-MHz
digital oscilloscope.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
Engineering
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Publication Date
June 27, 2018
Submission Date
January 9, 2018
Acceptance Date
May 25, 2018
Published in Issue
Year 2018 Volume: 4 Number: 1