System-on-Package Ultra Wideband Transmitter with Integrated Bandpass Filter and Broad Band Planar Antenna

In this paper, the UWB transmitter module for System-on-Package (SOP) is presented, which contains the miniaturized bandpass filter. This module is designed to achieve low data rate, low cost applications for location and tracking system based on non-coherent architecture. The presented module contains Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), the crystal oscillator, RF amplifier, planar antenna and bandpass filter the role of which is to make the transmitted pulse from the transmitter module satisfy the FCC regulation. A conventional bandpass filter occupies large area and is the bottleneck of miniaturization of transmitter module. The size of proposed bandpass filter is greatly reduced and it is about 10% area of conventional bandpass filter for UWB system. This leads to miniaturization of UWB transmitter module for SOP.

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