A Low Power Fully CMOS Integrated RF Transceiver IC for Wireless Sensor Networks

Author

Hae-Moon Seo ; Yeonkug Moon ; Yong-Kuk Park ; Dongsu Kim ; Dong-Sun Kim ; Youn-Sung Lee ; Kwang-Ho Won ; Seong-Dong Kim ; Pyung Choi

Author_Institution

Ubiquitous Comput. Center & Electron. Material & Packaging Res. Center, Korea Electron. Technol. Inst., Bundang

Volume

15

Issue

2

fYear

2007

Firstpage

227

Lastpage

231

Abstract

A fully CMOS integrated RF transceiver for ubiquitous sensor networks in sub-gigahertz industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM)-band applications is implemented and measured. The integrated circuit is fabricated in 0.18-mum CMOS technology and packaged in leadless plastic chip carrier (LPCC) package. The fully monolithic transceiver consists of a receiver, a transmitter, and an RF synthesizer with on-chip voltage-controlled oscillator. The chip fully complies with the IEEE 802.15.4 wireless personal area network in sub-gigahertz mode. The cascaded noise figure of the overall receiver is 9.5 dB and the overall transmitter achieves less than 6.3% error vector magnitude for 40 kb/s mode. The chip uses 1.8-V power supply and the power consumption is 25 mW for reception mode and 29 mW for transmission mode

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; IEEE standards; frequency synthesizers; integrated circuit manufacture; integrated circuit packaging; low-power electronics; radiofrequency integrated circuits; transceivers; voltage-controlled oscillators; wireless sensor networks; 0.18 micron; 1.8 V; 25 mW; 29 mW; 9.5 dB; CMOS technology; IEEE 802.15.4; RF synthesizer; RF transceiver; fully monolithic transceiver; integrated circuit fabrication; integrated circuit packaging; leadless plastic chip carrier package; low power CMOS integrated circuit; on-chip voltage-controlled oscillator; receiver; transmitter; ubiquitous sensor networks; wireless personal area network; wireless sensor networks; CMOS integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Integrated circuit measurements; Plastic integrated circuit packaging; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency integrated circuits; Semiconductor device measurement; Transceivers; Transmitters; Wireless sensor networks; CMOS; RF transceiver; integrated circuit (IC); low power; wireless sensor networks (WSNs);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1063-8210

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TVLSI.2007.893586

Filename

4142783