A 350 W CMOS MSK Transmitter and 400 W OOK Super-Regenerative Receiver for Medical Implant Communications

JL Bohorquez, AP Chandrakasan… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in the medical field are spurring the need for ultra-low power transceivers
for wireless communication with medical implants. To deal with the growing demand for …

A 2.4 GHz ULP OOK single-chip transceiver for healthcare applications

M Vidojkovic, X Huang, P Harpe… - IEEE transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes an ultra-low power (ULP) single chip transceiver for wireless body
area network (WBAN) applications. It supports on-off keying (OOK) modulation, and it …

A 79 pJ/b 80 Mb/s Full-Duplex Transceiver and a $42.5\;\upmu\text {W} $100 kb/s Super-Regenerative Transceiver for Body Channel Communication

H Cho, H Kim, M Kim, J Jang, Y Lee… - IEEE journal of solid …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A low-energy 40/160 MHz dual-band full duplex body channel communication (BCC)
transceiver and a 13.56 MHz RC oscillator-based super-regenerative transceiver are …

A low energy injection-locked FSK transceiver with frequency-to-amplitude conversion for body sensor applications

J Bae, L Yan, HJ Yoo - IEEE Journal of Solid-state circuits, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An energy-efficient 920 MHz FSK transceiver for wireless body sensor network (BSN)
applications is implemented in 0.18 μm CMOS technology with 0.7 V supply. A transceiver …

A low-power, process-and-temperature-compensated ring oscillator with addition-based current source

X Zhang, AB Apsel - … Transactions on Circuits and Systems I …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The design of a 1.8 GHz 3-stage current-starved ring oscillator with a process-and
temperature-compensated current source is presented. Without post-fabrication calibration …

An ultralow-power receiver for wireless sensor networks

J Ayers, K Mayaram, TS Fiez - IEEE Journal of solid-state …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An ultralow-power super-regenerative receiver for BFSK modulated signals has been
designed and fabricated in a standard 0.18-μm CMOS process. The use of BFSK modulation …

A survey of low-power transceivers and their applications

J Blanckenstein, J Klaue, H Karl - IEEE Circuits and Systems …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In wireless sensor networks (WSNs) energy efficiency and communication reliability are
often conflicting requirements. Additionally, some application areas such as industrial …

A near-threshold, 0.16 nJ/b OOK-transmitter with 0.18 nJ/b noise-cancelling super-regenerative receiver for the medical implant communications service

C Ma, C Hu, J Cheng, L Xia… - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A 0.16 nJ/b MICS transmitter and 0.18 nJ/b super-regenerative receiver are demonstrated,
where each is specifically designed to operate in the near-threshold region. The low-VDD …

Frequency-domain analysis of super-regenerative amplifiers

JL Bohorquez, AP Chandrakasan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since its invention in 1922, the super-regenerative amplifier (SRA) has been used in a
variety of short-range, low-power, and/or low-cost wireless systems due to its simple …

An energy-detector for noncoherent impulse-radio UWB receivers

A Gerosa, S Solda, A Bevilacqua… - … on Circuits and …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study proposes an energy detector for a noncoherent impulse-radio UWB receiver,
designed in a 0.18-mum CMOS technology. The squaring functionality is realized exploiting …