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This paper presents a method for system architecture modeling of an IR-UWB (Impulse Radio Ultra WideBand) receiver for sensors networks applications. We expose the way for designing an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) receiver starting from a previous study based on system modeling on Matlab. The proposed receiver architecture is first designed and validated on Matlab, before being implemented, thanks to VHDL language, on a FPGA. Our study shows the interest and the advantages of co-design Matlab-VHDL. We will propose here different IR-UWB receiver architecture depending on the modulation used. We will also introduce in this paper a data-rate and TH-code reconfigurable receiver. Using co-simulation Matlab-VHDL, we have compared three kind of IR-UWB receiver: TH-PPM, TH-OOK, TH-BPAM, with respect to BER/SNR criteria and in the specific context of wireless sensors networks, at high level (Matlab) and hardware level (FPGA-Xilinx).
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Lecointre, A., Dragomirescu, D., Plana, R. (2007). System Architecture Modeling of an UWB Receiver for Wireless Sensor Network. In: Vassiliadis, S., Bereković, M., Hämäläinen, T.D. (eds) Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation. SAMOS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4599. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73625-7_42
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