Digital shaped gaussian monocycle pulses in ultra wideband communications

• US 20040086001A1
• Filed: 10/30/2002
• Published: 05/06/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: George J. Miao, Mark A. Clements
• Original Assignee: George J. Miao, Mark A. Clements
• Inventors: Clements, Mark A., Miao, George J.
• Application Number:
  US10/283,732
• Publication Number:
  US 20040086001A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/516
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/7172 Pulse shape in general H04L25/03834
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/7174 Pulse generation in general H04L25/03834
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/03834 using pulse shaping

Abstract

Using the 1st derivative ultra-narrow Gaussian monocycle pulse passed through a digital shaping multi-band FIR filter may generate a digital ultra-narrow shaped Gaussian monocycle pulse. The spectrum output of the shaped Gaussian monocycle pulse directly meets the FCC'"'"'s mask restrictions of the emission limits for indoor UWB system. The digital system of generating shaping Gaussian monocycle pulse may be implemented in the off-line operation to save the processing power. The pulse generator in the UWB transceiver has flexibility and scalability of selecting only one shaped pulse out of the data memory banks in which allocate all of the shaped Gaussian monocycle pulses with the different center frequencies. With a shaped pulse generator, an UWB transceiver does not need either a digital shaping transmission filter or an analog shaping transmission filter, with coupling to a D/A converter before or after, during a real-time operation.

Claims

1. A digital system of shaping a Gaussian monocycle pulse comprising:

a digital derivative Gaussian monocycle pulse with the different center frequencies and sampling rates coupled to a digital multi-band shaping FIR filter in which the shaped Gaussian monocycle pulse can be stored into the data memory.

2. The transceiver of claim 1 wherein said a digital shaping Gaussian monocycle pulse system can produce the shaped Gaussian monocycle pulses for a pulse generator in such a way that meet the FCC'"'"'s masks of the emission limits directly.

3. The transceiver of claim 1 wherein said a digital shaping Gaussian monocycle pulse system may implement in the off-line operation for eliminating the computation complexity in an UWB device.

4. The transceiver of claim 1 wherein said a digital shaping FIR filter may be a multi-band FIR filter, or other-form FIR filter that meet the FCC'"'"'s mask restrictions of the emission limits.

5. The transceiver of claim 4 wherein said other-form digital shaping FIR filter may be a two-band bandpass FIR filter, one-band bandpass FIR filter, or Gaussian-form FIR filter that meets the FCC'"'"'s mask restrictions of the emission limits.

6. The transceiver of claim 3 wherein said an UWB communication transceiver may not have either a digital shaping transmission filter or an analog shaping transmission filter, with coupling to an D/A converter before or after, in the real-time operation.

7. The transceiver of claim 1 wherein said a data memory allocates a shaped Gaussian monocycle pulse with transacting to cover entire shaped pulse only.

8. The transceiver of claim 7 wherein said a transacted digital shaped Gaussian monocycle pulse has an odd number in samples with approximate zero value at index of the median sample, odd symmetric in samples, and odd symmetric peak in amplitudes.

9. A shaped pulse generator comprising:

data memory banks, selectable COMMUTER unit with a switch, and pulse shaping bank selector.

10. The transceiver of claim 9 wherein said N digital shaped Gaussian monocycle pulses with different center frequencies are stored into the N data memory banks, respectively.

11. The transceiver of claim 9 wherein said the selectable COMMUTER unit with a switch selects only one digital shaped Gaussian monocycle from the data memory banks for an UWB operation.

12. The transceiver of claim 11 wherein said the switch function in the COMMUTER unit is controlled by the pulse shaping bank selector.

13. The transceiver of claim 9 wherein said a shaped pulse generator can be implemented either in a hardware or in a software.

14. The D/A converter in the UWB transceiver needs to only operate on the duration of the shaped Gaussian monocycle pulse to save the processing power.

15. The transceiver of claim 14 wherein said a duration of the shaped Gaussian monocycle pulse can be determined by the sample numbers of a shaped Gaussian monocycle pulse in a data memory bank for operating the D/A converter.