System-level study on impulse-radio integration-and-fire (IRIF) transceiver

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2019

Authors

Kianpour, I (Author) Other; Hussain, B (Author) Other; Helio Mendonca (Author) FEUP; Vítor Grade Tavares (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications

Vol. 112

ISSN: 1434-8411

Publisher: Elsevier

Indexing

ISI Web of Knowledge - 0 Citations

Scopus - 0 Citations

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00R-6SY

DOI: 10.1016/j.aeue.2019.152896

Abstract (EN): Integrate-and-fire (IFN) model of a biological neuron is an amplitude-to-time conversion technique that encodes information in the time-spacing between action potentials (spikes). In principle, this encoding scheme can be used to modulate signals in an impulse radio ultra wide-band (IR-UWB) transmitter, making it suitable for low-power applications, such as in wireless sensor networks (WSN) and biomedical monitoring. This paper then proposes an architecture based on IFN encoding method applied to a UWB transceiver scenario, referred to herein as impulse-radio integrate-and-fire (IRIF) transceiver, followed by a system-level study to attest its effectiveness. The transmitter is composed of an integrate-and-fire modulator, a digital controller and memory block, followed by a UWB pulse generator and filter. At the receiver side, a low-noise amplifier, a squarer, a low-pass filter and a comparator form an energy-detection receiver. A processor reconstructs the original signal at the receiver, and the quality of the synthesized signal is then verified in terms of effective number of bits (ENOB). Finally, a link budget is performed. (C) 2019 Published by Elsevier GmbH.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 8