A low-power 1-GHz super-regenerative transceiver with time-shared PLL control

Author

Joehl, Norbert ; Dehollain, Catherine ; Favre, Patrick ; Deval, Philippe ; Declerq, M.

Author_Institution

Electron. Lab., Swiss Federal Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland

Volume

36

Issue

7

fYear

2001

fDate

7/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1025

Lastpage

1031

Abstract

A low-power transceiver for ISM applications in the 868-MHz band has been integrated in a 0.8-μm BiCMOS technology. The receiver part is based on the super-regenerative principle. The system includes two time-shared control loops, one for the selectivity and sensitivity control and one for the frequency control (PLL). The receiver with its PLL draws 3.6 mW for a sensitivity of -105 dBm and the emitter current consumption is 6 mA for a 0-dBm output power. A 2.4-V operation voltage allow the use of a two-batteries solution

Keywords

BiCMOS analogue integrated circuits; UHF integrated circuits; UHF oscillators; circuit tuning; demodulators; frequency control; low-power electronics; phase locked loops; phase locked oscillators; transceivers; 1 GHz; 2.4 V; 3.6 mW; 6 mA; BiCMOS technology; LNA; amplitude control; demodulation; differential pair; emitter current consumption; envelope detection; frequency control; low-power transceiver; on-off keying binary signals; periodically tuned oscillator; selectivity control; sensitivity control; super-regenerative transceiver; time-shared PLL control; time-shared control loops; timing diagram; two-batteries solution; Control systems; Demodulation; Envelope detectors; Low pass filters; Oscillators; Phase locked loops; Q factor; RF signals; Radio frequency; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9200

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/4.933457

Filename

933457