A 0dBm 10Mbps 2.4GHz ultra-low power ASK/OOK transmitter with digital pulse-shaping

Author

Huang, Xiongchuan ; Harpe, Pieter ; Wang, Xiaoyan ; Dolmans, Guido ; de Groot, Harmke

Author_Institution

Holst Centre - imec, Eindhoven, Netherlands

fYear

2010

fDate

23-25 May 2010

Firstpage

263

Lastpage

266

Abstract

This paper presents an ultra-low power transmitter used for wireless sensor network (WSN) and wireless body area network (WBAN) applications. The proposed 2.4GHz direct modulation transmitter radiates 1mW with 3.88mW power consumption, and it supports OOK and ASK modulation up to 10Mbps. The novel power amplifier structure enables digital pulse-shaping to improve spectrum efficiency of OOK transmission. When applied with OOK modulation with equal probability of 1´s and 0´s, it consumes 2.3mW with an energy efficiency of 0.23nJ/bit/mW. The transmitter is implemented in a 90nm CMOS technology and packaged in a QFN56 package.

Keywords

amplitude shift keying; body area networks; pulse shaping; wireless sensor networks; CMOS technology; OOK modulation; QFN56 package; bit rate 2.4 Mbit/s; digital pulse shaping; frequency 2.4 GHz; power 1 mW; power 2.3 mW; power 3.88 mW; power consumption; size 90 nm; ultra-low power ASK transmitter; ultra-low power OOK transmitter; wireless body area network; wireless sensor network; Amplitude shift keying; Body sensor networks; CMOS technology; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; Packaging; Power amplifiers; Pulse amplifiers; Transmitters; Wireless sensor networks; Low power; amplitude shift keying; body area network; power amplifiers; radio transmitter; sensor network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

ISSN

1529-2517

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6240-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.2010.5477317

Filename

5477317