A 1.1nJ/b 802.15.4a-compliant fully integrated UWB transceiver in 0.13µm CMOS

Radio transceivers relying on UWB impulse signals exhibit a strong potential for low data-rate communications at low power consumption. They are for instance specified in the IEEE 802.15.4a WPAN standard [1] to support low data rates, low power and low complexity short-range radio communications and ranging.