The Ultra-WideBand (UWB) technique, which offers good energy efficiency, flexible data rate, and high ranging accuracy, has recently been recognized as a revived wireless technology for short distance communication.This paper presents a brief overview of two UWB techniques, covering Impulse-Radio UWB (IR-UWB) and Frequency-Modulation UWB (FM-UWB) methods. The link margin enhancement technique, Very-WideBand (VWB), and power consumption reducing technique, chirp UWB, are also introduced. Then, several potential applications of IR-UWB with transceiver architectures are addressed, including high data rate proximity communication and secure wireless connectivity. With fine-ranging and energy-efficient communication features, the UWB wireless technology is highly promising for secure mobile Internet of Things (IoT) applications.
A coarse-fine dual-loop digital low dropout regulator (DLDO) having a binary weighed transistor array in the coarse loop and a 1-bit ΔΣ modulator in the fine loop is proposed. Compared with the conventional DLDO, the proposed architecture significantly reduces hardware complexity and alleviates matching requirement, enabling a robust DLDO design for low-voltage phase-locked loops. The proposed DLDO designed in 65 nm CMOS generates a noise-shaped output voltage whose peak value is <1 mV with the load current ranging from 100 μA to 6 mA.
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