Publications by Frédéric Chastellain

A Versatile 1.4-mW 6-bits CMOS ADC for Pulse-Based UWB Communication Systems

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Christian Robert, Frédéric Chastellain, Saeed Ghamari

An Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) using the low duty-cycle nature of pulse-based Ultra Wide-Band (UWB) communications to reduce its power consumption is proposed. Implemented in CMOS 180 nm technology, it can capture a 5 ns window at 4 GS/s each 100 ns, ...

2014

Looking Inside Modern Receivers

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Frédéric Chastellain

The principle of wireless communications originates from the need to communicate between two points separated by a distance sufficiently large to prevent the use of wires. This article talks about modern receivers in which the basic building blocks of mode ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

A 0.8V 2.4GHz 1Mb/s GFSK RF transceiver with on-chip DC-DC converter in a standard 0.18µm CMOS technology

Maher Kayal, Pierre-André Farine, Steve Tanner, Frédéric Chastellain, Martin Kucera

A low-energy 2.4GHz RF transceiver supporting 1Mb/s Gaussian Frequency-Shift Keying modulation and designed to run on a 1.5V battery is implemented in a standard 0.18μm CMOS technology. The integrated DC-DC converter can provide up to 100mA to an external ...

IEEE2010

Dual-frequency RF front-ends for GNSS receivers

Frédéric Chastellain

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a trilateration system which allows to compute the position of a receiver from the time the signals need to propagate from the satellites down to the receiver. Since the Selective Availability (SA) was turned off in 2 ...

EPFL2010

Design of a GPS and Galileo Multi-Frequency Front-End

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Youssef Tawk, Frédéric Chastellain, Enrique Rivera Parada

GNSS platforms such as the American Global Positioning System (GPS) or the Russian GLONASS system are being continuously updated with new satellites offering new signals, new frequencies and new functionalities. Moreover, new GNSS systems such as the Europ ...

Ieee Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Po Box 1331, Piscataway, Nj 08855-1331 Usa2009

A Programmable Receiver for Communication Systems and Its Application to Impulse Radio

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Frédéric Chastellain

The design of a programmable receiver for an ultra wideband (UWB) communication is presented. The receiver is using a fast analog to digital converter (ADC) and a field programmable gate array (FPGA) allowing a rapid performance evaluation for various syst ...

Hindawi Publishing Corporation2009