Pulse based wideband signaling

A system for pulse based wideband signaling comprising:

• at least one wideband transmitter for transmitting wideband radio frequency pulses;
• the transmitter having a data input;
• wherein the transmitter comprises a signal chain of a data encoder, a wideband modulator, a power amplifier, and a first antenna;
• the data encoder having a set of specific pulse sequences that are used for encoding data, wherein the data input is encoded as a pulse repetition rate signal to be used in a wideband radio frequency sequence of modulated pulses;
• the wideband modulator having a specific carrier frequency and bandwidth, and producing a wideband modulated sequence of pulses in response to the pulse repetition rate signal;
• the wideband modulated sequence of pulses comprising a plurality of chips, wherein each chip is an individual modulated pulse, and wherein each “0” bit of data comprises a first plurality of chips having a first sequence of chip durations and spacings, and each “1” bit of data comprises a second plurality of chips having a second sequence of chip durations and spacings;
• whereby the transmitter outputs a wideband pulsed radio signal through the power amplifier and the first antenna;
• at least one wideband receiver for receiving data;
• wherein the receiver comprises a signal chain of a second antenna, a baseband conversion stage, a demodulator, and a decoder;
• the second antenna receiving the wideband pulsed radio signal;
• the baseband conversion stage converting the wideband pulsed radio signal to an intermediate frequency pulsed signal;
• wherein the demodulator comprises;
• a signal chain of at least one amplifier stage, a signal splitter with outputs of a radio frequency detector output and an automatic gain control signal, the radio frequency detector output followed by a sample and hold circuit, a high pass filter, and at least a first inverter;
• wherein the first inverter functions as a comparator to produce digital output data from a non-digital or noisy input;
• the demodulator extracting the pulse repetition rate signal from the intermediate frequency pulsed signal;
• the decoder producing a receiver data output in bits from the input of the pulse repetition rate signal, and
• wherein the at least one wideband receiver is configured to correctly decode the pulse repetition rate signal in order to decode data.