Device for generating transmission pulses based on multiple kernel pulses and method therefore

1 . A device for forming a transmission pulse, in particular an UWB-chip-pulse having a plurality of lobes with different polarity, configured to:

obtain information about a transmission pulse, wherein the information comprises a pulse shape;

form a plurality of kernel pulses on the basis of the pulse shape;

invert at least partly one or more kernel pulses on the basis of the polarity of a lobe of the pulse shape, wherein the inversion of a kernel pulse depends on a minimum and/or a zero-crossing of the pulse shape; and/or a minimum of a non-negative pulse formed by integrated kernel pulses;

adapt a pulse amplitude formed by integrated kernel pulses such that one or more minima are changed from a non-zero value to zero;

form a transmission pulse based on the plurality of kernel pulses.

2 . The device according to claim 1 , wherein the kernel pulses are based on a pre-defined time quantization.

3 . The device according to claim 1 , wherein the kernel pulses are based on a quantization resolution; and wherein the quantization resolution is in particular comprised in the information about the transmission pulse.

4 . The device according to claim 1 , wherein the transmission pulse and/or one or more kernel pulses are based on a starting time; and wherein the starting time is in particular comprised in the information about the transmission pulse.

5 . A device for forming a transmission pulse, in particular an UWB-chip-pulse, configured to:

obtain information about a transmission pulse, wherein the information comprises a pulse shape;

form a plurality of rectangular kernel pulses on the basis of the pulse shape;

form a transmission pulse based on the plurality of kernel pulses,

wherein the transmission pulse is formed by addition of the rectangular kernel pulses,

wherein said device is configured to modulate kernel pulses with a pre-defined carrier signal,

wherein said device is configured to invert at least partly one or more of the plurality of rectangular kernel pulses on the basis of a polarity of a lobe of the pulse shape, and

wherein the device is configured to encode a duration of an inversion in a phase and/or frequency of a carrier signal used to modulate the respective kernel pulse.

6 . The device according to claim 1 , configured to form a plurality of transmission pulses concurrently, in particular based on an information relating to a time between two consecutive transmission pulses.

7 . The device according to claim 6 , configured to integrate the plurality of transmission pulses, in particular by current summation.

8 . The device according to claim 1 , configured to provide

a kernel pulse out of a pre-defined set of kernel pulse types; and/or

a transmission pulse out of a pre-defined set of transmission pulse types.

9 . The device according to claim 8 , wherein the number of kernel pulses in the set of kernel pulses depends on a pre-defined combination scheme.

10 . The device of claim 1 , whereby the addition is performed by current summation.

11 . The device of claim 1 , whereby the transmission pulse is generated in a stage, that comprises a plurality of amplifiers, whereby each amplifier amplifies a kernel pulse with a predefined gain factor, and the amplified kernel pulses are then integrated by summation to achieve the transmission pulse.