Title :
High-data-rate time-to-digital converter for GFSK demodulator of low-power RF receivers
Author_Institution :
RichWave Inc., Hsinchu, Taiwan
Abstract :
A 1.8 mW 0.12 mm2 chip area time-to-digital converter (TDC), capable of demodulating 4 Mbit/s data rate Gaussian-FSK signal, is presented. No high sampling clock is needed in this demodulator. The required input SNR of the demodulator is 18 dB.
Keywords :
Gaussian processes; demodulators; frequency shift keying; low-power electronics; time-digital conversion; GFSK demodulator; SNR; bit rate 4 Mbit/s; chip area; data rate Gaussian-FSK signal; high-data-rate time-to-digital converter; low-power RF receiver; power 1.8 mW;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el.2011.3565
