A programmable receiver for communication systems and its application to impulse radio

  • Authors:

  • Roman Merz;Cyril Botteron;Frédéric Chastellain;Pierre-André Farine

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland;Electronics and Signal Processing Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Neuchâtel, Switzerland;Electronics and Signal Processing Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Neuchâtel, Switzerland;Electronics and Signal Processing Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • Research Letters in Communications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The design of a programmable receiver for an ultra wideband (UWB) communication is presented. The receiver is using a fast analog to digital converter (ADC) and a field programmable gate array (FPGA) allowing a rapid performance evaluation for various system architectures and signal processing algorithms. To demonstrate the performance and the versatility of the receiver, a simple communication system and a localization system are implemented. The accuracy of the latter is presented for an indoor environment.