A fully integrated Bluetooth low-energy transmitter in 28 nm CMOS with 36% system efficiency at 3 dBm

M Babaie, FW Kuo, HNR Chen, LC Cho… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a new transmitter architecture for ultra-low power radios in which the most
energy-hungry RF circuits operate at a supply just above a threshold voltage of CMOS …

A low power Bluetooth low-energy transmitter with a 10.5 nJ startup-energy crystal oscillator

O Abdelatty, H Bishop, Y Shi, X Chen… - … 2019-IEEE 45th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a low power, fully-integrated Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE) transmitter
(TX) for Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. The complete BLE TX achieves a total energy …

13.6 A 600μW Bluetooth low-energy front-end receiver in 0.13 μm CMOS technology

A Selvakumar, M Zargham… - 2015 IEEE International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the main goals for the next generation of radios for wireless sensor and body-area
networks (WSN and WBAN) is a sub-mW receiver (RX) compliant with energy-harvested …

A Bluetooth low-energy transceiver with 3.7-mW all-digital transmitter, 2.75-mW high-IF discrete-time receiver, and TX/RX switchable on-chip matching network

FW Kuo, SB Ferreira, HNR Chen… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present an ultra-low-power Bluetooth low-energy (BLE) transceiver (TRX) for the Internet
of Things (IoT) optimized for digital 28-nm CMOS. A transmitter (TX) employs an all-digital …

28.3 A 606μW mm-Scale Bluetooth Low-Energy Transmitter Using Co-Designed 3.5×3.5mm2 Loop Antenna and Transformer-Boost Power Oscillator

Y Shi, X Chen, HS Kim, D Blaauw… - … Solid-State Circuits …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless communication has been a limiting factor for achieving millimeter-sized wireless
sensor nodes because of the high power consumption, large antenna size and off-chip …

Analysis and Design of an Ultra-Low-Power Bluetooth Low-Energy Transmitter With Ring Oscillator-Based ADPLL and 4 Frequency Edge Combiner

X Chen, J Breiholz, FB Yahya, CJ Lukas… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present an all-digital ring oscillator (RO)-based Bluetooth low-energy (BLE)
transmitter (TX) for ultra-low-power radios in short range Internet-of-Things (IoT) …

A 3.9 mW Bluetooth low-energy transmitter using all-digital PLL-based direct FSK modulation in 55 nm CMOS

SJ Oh, SJ Kim, I Ali, TTK Nga, DS Lee… - … on Circuits and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a low-power frequency-shift keying (FSK) transmitter (TX) with an all-
digital phase locked loop (ADPLL) based on direct modulation for use in Bluetooth low …

A DPLL-centric Bluetooth low-energy transceiver with a 2.3-mW interference-tolerant hybrid-loop receiver in 65-nm CMOS

H Liu, Z Sun, D Tang, H Huang… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a Bluetooth low-energy (BLE) transceiver (TRX) achieving ultra-low-
power operation for Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. The proposed TRX utilizes a wide …

A 0.2-V energy-harvesting BLE transmitter with a micropower manager achieving 25% system efficiency at 0-dBm output and 5.2-nW sleep power in 28-nm CMOS

S Yang, J Yin, H Yi, WH Yu, PI Mak… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reports an ultralow-voltage (ULV) energy-harvesting bluetooth low-energy (BLE)
transmitter (TX). It features: 1) a fully integrated micropower manager (PM) to customize the …

A 0.68 V 0.68 mW 2.4 GHz PLL for ultra-low power RF systems

A Paidimarri, N Ickes… - 2015 IEEE Radio …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A 2.4 GHz PLL consuming 0.68 mW has been implemented in 65nm LPCMOS for use in
ultra-low power Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) applications. VCO, charge pump and dynamic …