DESIGN of a PULSE GENERATOR CIRCUIT for UWB COMMUNICATIONS
Öz
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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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Mühendislik
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Yayımlanma Tarihi
27 Haziran 2018
Gönderilme Tarihi
9 Ocak 2018
Kabul Tarihi
25 Mayıs 2018
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2018 Cilt: 4 Sayı: 1