A Low-Cost Ultra-Wideband Test-Bed

This paper presents the design and implementation of a simple transceiver test-bed for implementing and testing algorithms for impulsive UWB applications. The platform has been developed using low-cost off-the-shelf components. We have conceived a simple modular architecture that was targeted to low power, short-range applications. The test-bed is discussed,commenting on the main design decisions and the benefits of the chosen architecture. Measurements of some blocks of the system are also presented.Fil: Altieri, Andrés Oscar. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Centro de Simulación Computacional para Aplicaciones Tecnológicas; ArgentinaFil: Gámez, Pablo. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Industrial; ArgentinaFil: Marchi, Edgardo Jose. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Industrial; ArgentinaFil: Cervetto, Marcos. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Industrial; ArgentinaFil: Bouza, Magadalena. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ingeniería. Departamento de Electronica; ArgentinaFil: Galarza, Cecilia Gabriela. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Centro de Simulación Computacional para Aplicaciones Tecnológicas; ArgentinaXXXV Simpósio Brasileiro de Telecomunicações e Processamento de SinaisSan PedroBrasilSociedade Brasileira de Telecomunicaçõe

A Fully-configurable SoC-Based IR-UWB Platform for Data Acquisition and Algorithm Testing

Research and development of algorithms for processing Impulse Radio Ultra-Wideband signals is a trending issue within remote sensing applications, personal area networks, and RF imaging among other areas. We have designed a SoC-based platform, conceived for scientific experimentation, with a fully modular and configurable design. Built with off-the-shelf components, our design achieves a configurable UWB-capable sampling rate through an equivalent-time sampling scheme. In this letter, we introduce the system architecture, its main interfaces, and the rationale behind each module implementation.Fil: Cervetto, Marcos. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Industrial; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ingeniería; ArgentinaFil: Marchi, Edgardo Jose. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Industrial; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ingeniería; ArgentinaFil: Galarza, Cecilia Gabriela. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Centro de Simulación Computacional para Aplicaciones Tecnológicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ingeniería; Argentin

A low-cost ultra-wideband test-bed for dielectric target detection

This work presents a low-cost Ultra-Wideband (UWB) test-bed for impulse radio communications and sensing. The design was conceived for generic algorithm implementation and testing over a modular and simple architecture. The hardware design is based on commercially available components and is capable of achieving a 1 GHz bandwidth with a central frequency of 4.2525 GHz. The test-bed architecture is presented and discussed then, some measurements over the prototypes are shown.Fil: Gámez, Pablo. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Industrial; ArgentinaFil: Marchi, Edgardo Jose. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Industrial; ArgentinaFil: Cervetto, Marcos. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Industrial; ArgentinaFil: Giuffrida, Carolina Andrea. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Industrial; ArgentinaFil: Perez, Gaston. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Industrial; ArgentinaFil: Altieri, Andrés Oscar. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Centro de Simulación Computacional para Aplicaciones Tecnológicas; ArgentinaFil: Galarza, Cecilia Gabriela. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Centro de Simulación Computacional para Aplicaciones Tecnológicas; ArgentinaXVII Workshop on Information Processing and ControlMar del PlataArgentinaUniversidad Nacional de Mar del Plat