A 20 Mb/s 0.084 nJ/bit ISM-band transmitter dedicated to medical sensor networks

Author

Moradi, Amir ; Sawan, Mohamad

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Polytech. Montreal, Montréal, QC, Canada

fYear

2012

fDate

9-12 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

165

Lastpage

168

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a high performance radio frequency (RF) transmitter (Tx) with low-power and high data-rate features. The proposed circuit, which is dedicated to wireless interface to a network of medical sensors, uses a new Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) modulation technique and operates in the North American 902-928 MHz ISM Band. The proposed Tx was validated through post-layout simulations in 90nm CMOS technology. Using the proposed modulation technique, the transmission circuits without the local oscillator and the power amplifier consume no DC current which reduces the total power budget to 0.084 nJ/b achieving a data-rate of 20 Mb/s.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; biomedical communication; frequency shift keying; oscillators; radio transmitters; wireless sensor networks; CMOS technology; FSK modulation technique; ISM band; ISM-band transmitter; bit rate 20 Mbit/s; frequency 902 MHz to 928 MHz; frequency shift keying; high datarate features; high performance radio frequency transmitter; local oscillator; medical sensor networks; total power budget; transmission circuits; wireless interface; Frequency shift keying; Mixers; Radio transmitters; Transceivers; Frequency Shift Keying; High Data-Rate Transmitters; Low-Power RF Transceivers; Wireless Sensor Networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), 2012 19th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seville

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1261-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-1259-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECS.2012.6463774

Filename

6463774