A self-synchronized, crystal-less, 86µW, dual-band impulse radio for ad-hoc wireless networks

Author

Wang, Xiao Y. ; Dokania, Rajeev K. ; Zhuang, Yi ; Godycki, Waclaw ; Dorta-Quinones, Carlos I. ; Lyons, Michael ; Apsel, Alyssa B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

5-7 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

An 86μW, 150Kbps, self synchronizing 3.5-4.5GHz UWB IR transceiver is presented. Synchronous receiver duty cycling of 0.5% is enabled without a crystal through a pulse coupled oscillator (PCO) network that establishes timing and allows multi-node multi-hop communication. The synchronization scheme is supported by implementation of low power oscillator and timing circuits to control duty-cycling. Our FCC compliant transceiver uses OOK modulation and has a receiver sensitivity of -86dBm.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; amplitude shift keying; oscillators; radio transceivers; ultra wideband communication; OOK modulation; PCO network; UWB IR transceiver; ad-hoc wireless networks; crystal-less impulse radio; dual-band impulse radio; frequency 3.5 GHz to 4.5 GHz; multi-hop communication; power 86 muW; pulse coupled oscillator network; self-synchronized impulse radio; Jitter; Oscillators; Receivers; Synchronization; Transceivers; Transmitters; Impulse Radio; Low Power; Sensor Networks; Transceiver; UWB;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

ISSN

1529-2517

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8293-1

Electronic_ISBN

1529-2517

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.2011.5940613

Filename

5940613