A Pulsed UWB Receiver SoC For Insect Flight Control

A highly integrated, 3-to-5 GHz non-coherent pulsed UWB Rx SoC is designed for an insect flight control system. The SoC includes an integrated 4-channel PWM stimulator. The highly duty cycled Rx requires 0.5 to 1.4nJ/bit. Amultistage tuned-inverter based RF front end and differential signal chain allows for robust, low energy operation. The receiver achieves a maximum sensitivity of -76dBm at a data rate of 16Mb/s (10^-3 BER).