Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) for an Energy Efficient Impulse Radio Ultra-Wideband Transceiver. Testing and Statistic Assessment

Abstract

This paper presents the set-up, test results and statistic evaluation for a lot of five ASIC prototypes of an impulse radio ultra-wideband transceiver (IR-UWB), realized in ST Microelectronics CMOS 65 nm technology. The main purpose of our undertaken is to provide an energy efficient device: having five functional prototypes we assessed the manufacturing process stability in respect with average power consumption, at different data rates.