arXiv · 2212.01710
A 21.3%-Efficiency Clipped-Sinusoid UWB Impulse Radio Transmitter with Simultaneous Inductive Powering and Data Receiving
Abstract
An ultra-wide-band impulse-radio (UWB-IR) transmitter (TX) for low-energy biomedical microsystems is presented. High power efficiency is achieved by modulating an LC tank that always resonates in the steady state during transmission. A new clipped-sinusoid scheme is proposed for on-off keying (OOK)-modulation, which is implemented by a voltage clipper circuit with on-chip biasing generation. The TX is designed to provide a high data-rate wireless link within the 3-5 GHz band. The chip was fabricated in 130nm CMOS technology and fully characterized. State-of-the-art power efficiency of 21.3% was achieved at a data-rate of 230Mbps and energy consumption of 21pJ/b. A bit-error-rate (BER) of less than 10^-6 was measured at a distance of 1m without pulse averaging. In addition, simultaneous wireless powering and VCO-based data transmission are supported. A potential extension to a VCO-free all-wireless mode to further reduce the power consumption is also discussed.
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Nima Soltani, Hamed M. Jafari, Karim Abdelhalim, Hossein Kassiri, Xilin Liu, Roman Genov. 2022-12-03. A 21.3%-Efficiency Clipped-Sinusoid UWB Impulse Radio Transmitter with Simultaneous Inductive Powering and Data Receiving. https://doi.org/10.1109/tbcas.2022.3225304
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