Patent 7457350 was granted and assigned to Artimi on November, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Described herein are ultra wideband (UWB) receiver systems, and applications thereof. Such a UWB receiver includes a receiver front end and a correlator coupled to the receiver front end. The receiver front end is configured to receive a UWB signal having a plurality of multipath components. The correlator is configured to correlate the UWB signal with a reference signal. The UWB signal includes a plurality of pulses, wherein each pulse has a plurality of multipath components. The reference signal also includes a plurality of multipath components of the pulse. The correlator includes at least one correlator module configured to correlate a plurality of the multipath components of the pulse with the reference signal.