An Ultra-Low-Power RFID/NFC frontend IC using 0.18 μm CMOS technology for passive tag applications

M Bhattacharyya, W Gruenwald, D Jansen, L Reindl… - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Battery-less passive sensor tags based on RFID or NFC technology have achieved much
popularity in recent times. Passive tags are widely used for various applications like …

A 13.56-MHz passive NFC tag IC in 0.18-μm CMOS process for biomedical applications

CH Lu, JA Li, TH Lin - … on VLSI Design, Automation and Test …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a low power and area-efficient passive tag IC for biomedical
applications. CMOS gate cross-coupled rectifier with a diode is built to achieve high power …

9.1 A self-calibrating NFC SoC with a triple-mode reconfigurable PLL and a single-path PICC-PCD receiver in 0.11 μm CMOS

WL Lien, TY Choke, YC Tan, M Kong… - … Solid-State Circuits …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The popularity of the Near-Field Communication (NFC) system stems from being able to
establish communication by merely being in the vicinity of another NFC device, an operation …

A 2.4 pJ/bit ASK demodulator with 100% modulation rate for 13.56 MHz NFC/RFID applications

G Cai, A Pun, D Kwong… - 2014 IEEE International …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, an Amplitude Shift Keying (ASK) demodulator circuit for Near Field
Communication (NFC) target mode or Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag is designed …

A 1.6nJ/bit, 19.9μA peak current fully integrated 2.5mm2 inductive transceiver for volume-constrained microsystems

MH Ghaed, S Skrzyniarz, D Blaauw… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A 1.6 nJ/bit inductive transceiver targeting volume-constrained microsystems with limited
peak current is presented. The transceiver uses a protocol in which the external unit sends …

Protocol for an electronic device to receive a data packet from an external device

MH Ghaed, S Skrzyniarz, DT Blaauw… - US Patent …, 2017 - Google Patents
A protocol for transmitting data from an external device to an electronic device is provided in
which the external device transmits a data stream which includes the same data packet …

Method and apparatus for using an over sampling architecture to achieve a software defined radio for NFC integrated circuits

S Mendel, UA Muehlmann, D Kurzmann - US Patent 10,127,487, 2018 - Google Patents
Various embodiments relate to a method and apparatus for over sampling a RF carrier
signal, the method including receiving, by an ADC, the RF carrier signal, sampling, by the …

Wireless Transceivers for Implantable Microsystems

MH Ghaed - 2013 - search.proquest.com
In this thesis, we present the first-ever fully integrated mm3 low-power biomedical
transceiver with 1 meter of range that is powered by a mm2 thin-film battery. The transceiver …