A 2.4GHz CMOS automatic matching network design for pacemaker applications

Author

Po, F. Chan Wai ; De Foucauld, E. ; Vincent, P. ; Hameau, F. ; Kerhervé, E. ; Molin, R. Dal ; Pons, P. ; Pierquin, R.

Author_Institution

CEA, MINATEC, Grenoble, France

fYear

2009

fDate

June 28 2009-July 1 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents the design of an adaptive antenna-impedance tuning unit in 0.13 mum CMOS technology. The design is intended for ultra low power medical applications operating at the 2.4 GHz ISM frequency band. It describes the architecture and the design of the different units which are a power amplifier, a pi tunable matching network, an attenuator and a down conversion module with mixer and GmC filter. The automatic matching procedure is simulated and lead to an improvement of 15 dB in the reflection coefficient and an increase of 8 dB in the transmitted power.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; attenuators; filters; integrated circuit design; pacemakers; power amplifiers; CMOS automatic matching network design; GmC filter; ISM frequency band; adaptive antenna-impedance tuning unit; attenuator; down conversion module; frequency 2.4 GHz; pacemaker applications; power amplifier; reflection coefficient; size 0.13 mum; tunable matching network; ultralow power medical applications; Adaptive arrays; Attenuators; Biomedical equipment; CMOS technology; Frequency; Medical services; Mixers; Pacemakers; Power amplifiers; Tuning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems and TAISA Conference, 2009. NEWCAS-TAISA '09. Joint IEEE North-East Workshop on

Conference_Location

Toulouse

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4573-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4574-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NEWCAS.2009.5290414

Filename

5290414