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 0.18-V 382- W Bluetooth Low-Energy Receiver Front-End With 1.33-nW Sleep Power for Energy-Harvesting Applications in 28-nm CMOS

H Yi, WH Yu, PI Mak, J Yin… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes an ultra-low-voltage Bluetooth low-energy (BLE) receiver (RX) front
end with an on-chip micropower manager (μPM) to customize the internal voltage domains …

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 …

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 …

24.4 A 0.18 V 382µW bluetooth low-energy (BLE) receiver with 1.33 nW sleep power for energy-harvesting applications in 28nm CMOS

WH Yu, H Yi, PI Mak, J Yin… - 2017 IEEE international …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For true mobility, wearable electronics should be self-powered by the environment. On-body
thermoelectric (~ 50μW/cm 2) is a maturing energy source but delivers a deeply low and …

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) …

26.8 A 236nW− 56.5 dBm-sensitivity bluetooth low-energy wakeup receiver with energy harvesting in 65nm CMOS

NE Roberts, K Craig, A Shrivastava… - … Solid-State Circuits …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Batteryless operation and ultra-low-power (ULP) wireless communication will be two key
enabling technologies as the IC industry races to keep pace with the IoE projections of 1T …

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 …

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 …

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 …