UWB Digital Baseband For 100Mbps Transceiver

This baseband achieves 100Mbps using UWB impulses of 500MHz bandwidth in the FCC compliant band, as part of a UWB system. Due to its bandwidth, the multipath becomes relevant. This digital baseband allows to assess the quality of the channel and exposes several knobs to fine-tune the receiver, trading off number of operations and power dissipation with quality of service. It includes a MLSE and a RAKE receiver to compensate for multipath. It has been implemented in 0.18µm CMOS technology.