The role and challenges of body channel communication in wearable flexible electronics

B Zhao, J Mao, J Zhao, H Yang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Flexible electronics are compatible with film substrates that are soft and stretchable,
resulting in conformal integration with human body. Integrated with various sensors and …

30.5 A 0.5 V BLE transceiver with a 1.9 mW RX achieving− 96.4 dBm sensitivity and 4.1 dB adjacent channel rejection at 1MHz offset in 22nm FDSOI

M Tamura, H Takano, S Shinke, H Fujita… - … Solid-State Circuits …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Towards the emerging AI era, IoT is becoming more important. Current IoT wireless nodes
require replacement or recharging of the battery. This is impractical when a massive number …

An interference-resilient BLE-compatible wake-up receiver employing single-die multi-channel FBAR-based filtering and a 4-D wake-up signature

PHP Wang, PP Mercier - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a Bluetooth low energy (BLE) compatible wake-up receiver (WuRX) that
simultaneously achieves low power, high sensitivity, and interference resiliency. Interference …

A 266-μW Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE) Receiver Featuring an N-Path Passive Balun-LNA and a Pipeline Down-Mixing BB-Extraction Scheme Achieving 77-dB SFDR and −3 …

H Shao, PI Mak, G Qi, RP Martins - IEEE Journal of Solid-State …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article reports an ultra-low-power (ULP) Bluetooth low-energy (BLE) receiver with an
improved spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR). It features two passive-intensive RF …

Revisiting the frontiers of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits architectures and techniques towards the future internet of everything (IoE) applications

RP Martins, PI Mak, SW Sin, MK Law… - … and Trends® in …, 2021 - nowpublishers.com
Abstract People-to-people (P2P) technology-assisted interconnections, embedded in a
global environment, will be at the core of 21st century communications and will command …

A 0.5-V 1.6-mW 2.4-GHz fractional-N all-digital PLL for Bluetooth LE with PVT-insensitive TDC using switched-capacitor doubler in 28-nm CMOS

N Pourmousavian, FW Kuo… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes an ultra-low-voltage (ULV) fractional-N all-digital PLL (ADPLL)
powered from a single 0.5-V supply. While its digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) runs …

Airdropping sensor networks from drones and insects

V Iyer, M Kim, S Xue, A Wang, S Gollakota - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
We present the first system that can airdrop wireless sensors from small drones and live
insects. In addition to the challenges of achieving low-power consumption and long-range …

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 0.4-V 10.9- W/Pole Third-Order Complex BPF for Low Energy RF Receivers

L Compassi-Severo, W Van Noije - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a 0.4-V ultra-low power (ULP) third-order active-RC complex band-pass
filter (CxBPF) for Bluetooth low energy receivers prototyped in a 180 nm CMOS process. The …

An event-driven quasi-level-crossing delta modulator based on residue quantization

H Wang, F Schembari… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article introduces a digitally intensive eventdriven quasi-level-crossing (quasi-LC) delta-
modulator analogto-digital converter (ADC) with adaptive resolution (AR) for Internet of …