A 3.5mW 315/400MHz IEEE802.15.6/proprietary mode digitally-tunable radio SoC with integrated digital baseband and MAC processor in 40nm CMOS

Author

Bachmann, Christian ; Vidojkovic, Maja ; Xiongchuan Huang ; Lont, Maarten ; Yao-Hong Liu ; Ming Ding ; Busze, Benjamin ; Gloudemans, Jordy ; Giesen, Hans ; Sbai, Adnane ; van Schaik, Gert-Jan ; Kiyani, Nauman ; Kanda, Kouichi ; Oishi, Kazuaki ; Masui, Sho

Author_Institution

Holst Centre/imec, Eindhoven, Netherlands

fYear

2015

fDate

17-19 June 2015

Abstract

An energy-efficient, flexible radio SoC with RF front-end (RFFE), digital baseband (DBB) and microcontroller (MCU) for medical/healthcare applications in 315/400 MHz bands is presented. The SoC is fully-compliant with the IEEE 802.15.6 standard in 400MHz bands, and also supports proprietary modes, including high data rate (HDR) modes with x2/4/8 data rates (max 3.6Mb/s) to support applications like EEG, and low-power modes with 1/16 data rate to minimize sensor node power consumption. The total power consumption of 3.5mW (RX, 3.6Mb/s, -77dBm sensitivity) enables best-in-class power efficiency of 1nJ/bit.

Keywords

low-power electronics; system-on-chip; MAC processor; RF front-end; energy-efficient radio SoC; flexible radio SoC; integrated digital baseband; microcontroller; power 3.5 mW; proprietary mode digitally-tunable radio SoC; Decision support systems; Very large scale integration; 315/400MHz; 802.15.6; Radio SoC; low-power; medical;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

VLSI Circuits (VLSI Circuits), 2015 Symposium on

Conference_Location

Kyoto

Print_ISBN

978-4-86348-502-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VLSIC.2015.7231336

Filename

7231336