Patent ID: 7551665

Claim:
An ultra wideband (UWB) receiver operable to process a high order Gaussian pulse, the UWB receiver comprising: an integrator group having an input coupled to receive the high order Gaussian pulse and an output, the integrator group comprising a plurality of successively coupled integration stages, each integration stage operable to integrate, over a predefined time period, the signal received thereby, the integrator group operable to output, in response, a lower order Gaussian pulse; a correlator circuit coupled to receive the lower order Gaussian pulse, the correlator circuit operable to output a correlated output signal corresponding to the correlation between the lower order Gaussian pulse and a predefined reference signal; and a comparator circuit coupled to receive the correlated output data, the comparator circuit operable to compare the correlated output data to one or more predefined values for constructing a data stream representing modulation data of the high order Gaussian pulse.