A 10 mW Bluetooth Low-Energy Transceiver With On-Chip Matching

Author

Prummel, Jan ; Papamichail, Michail ; Willms, John ; Todi, Rahul ; Aartsen, William ; Kruiskamp, Wim ; Haanstra, Johan ; Opbroek, Enno ; Rievers, Soren ; Seesink, Peter ; van Gorsel, Jan ; Woering, Harrie ; Smit, Chris

Author_Institution

Dialog Semicond. B.V., S-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

Volume

50

Issue

12

fYear

2015

Firstpage

3077

Lastpage

3088

Abstract

A mass-produced Bluetooth Low-Energy transceiver is presented in classic double frequency VCO architecture fabricated in TSMC 55 nm CMOS. The radio part occupies 2.9 mm² while the complete SoC occupies 5.9 mm². The transceiver consumes 11 mW when receiving at -94 dBm and 10 mW when transmitting at 0 dBm. This is roughly a factor 2 lower than benchmark mass-produced designs. The power consumption is higher than recently published experimental sliding-IF designs, but it does not suffer from their inherent susceptibility to blocking and pulling. Easy application is enabled by a fully integrated single-ended 50 Ω RFIO and combined Buck- and Boost-mode DC-DC converter.

Keywords

Bluetooth; CMOS integrated circuits; DC-DC power convertors; radio transceivers; system-on-chip; voltage-controlled oscillators; RFIO; SoC; TSMC 55 nm CMOS; boost-mode DC-DC converter; buck-mode DC-DC converter; classic double frequency VCO architecture; mass-produced Bluetooth low-energy transceiver; on-chip matching; power 10 mW; power 11 mW; power consumption; resistance 50 ohm; size 55 nm; Capacitors; DC-DC power converters; Inductors; Power demand; Radio frequency; System-on-chip; Transceivers; Bluetooth low-energy (BLE); CMOS integrated circuits; ISM band; Internet of Things (IoT); low-power transceiver; system-on-a-chip (SoC); wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9200

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSSC.2015.2469674

Filename

7276954