UWB for Around-the-Body Data Streaming

This chapter presents the first ultra-wide-band (UWB) solution for around-the-body audio streaming. The complete system includes a power-efficient fully integrated transmitter, a receiver front end, an ultra-low-power 500 MHz analog to digital converter (ADC) and a flexible receiver digital baseband mapped on field programmable gate arrays (FPGA). The whole system demonstrates a wireless link upto 12 meters, at a data rate of 0.85 Mbps. Thanks to the inherent nature of the impulse radio, the system is robust to narrowband fades and the average power consumption is brought down to mW range.