A CMOS low-power receiving signal strength indicator using weak-inversion limiting amplifiers

Author

Wang, Keping ; Gu, Jiangmin ; Lim, Kok Meng ; Yan, Jinna ; Lim, Wei Meng ; Cao, Xiang ; Wang, Zhigong ; Ma, Kaixue ; Yeo, Kiat Seng

Author_Institution

EEE, Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2011

fDate

17-18 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Receiving signal strength indicator (RSSI) has been widely used in wireless receiver communication systems such as wireless local personal networks (e.g. Bluetooth), wireless local area networks (e.g. WLAN 802.11a, b, g, j, n), cellular networks (e.g. GSM, UMTS), digital broadcasting (e.g. DAB, DVB-TH), and positioning systems (e.g. GPS) [1-3]. The RSSI is normally employed to represent the received signal power strength. It can also be used to adjust the gains of the RF front-end, analog baseband, and power down the receiver when there is no signal.

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; amplifiers; limiters; low-power electronics; radio receivers; radiofrequency amplifiers; signal processing; CMOS low-power receiving signal strength indicator; RF front-end gain; RSSI; analog baseband gain; weak-inversion limiting amplifiers; wireless receiver communication system; CMOS integrated circuits; Limiting; Power demand; Receivers; Rectifiers; Semiconductor device measurement; Transconductance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits (EDSSC), 2011 International Conference of

Conference_Location

Tianjin

ISSN

Pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1998-1

Electronic_ISBN

Pending

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDSSC.2011.6117642

Filename

6117642