A Low-Power Dual-Injection-Locked RF Receiver With FSK-to-OOK Conversion for Biomedical Implants

Mohamed Zgaren, Mohamad Sawan

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers · 2015 · 46 citations · 19 references

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Abstract

We present in this paper an ultra low power ISM band RF receiver intended for implantable biomedical devices. The proposed circuit, which represents the reception part of a new energy-efficient RF FSK transceiver, consist of an FSK receiver (Rx) with OOK fully passive wake-up device (WuRx). This WuRx is batteryless with energy harvesting technique which plays an important role in making the RF transceiver energy-efficient. This proposed receiver is achieved with a reduced hardware architecture which does not use an accurate local oscillator, high Q external inductor and I/Q signal path. The circuit is base on a dual injection locked FSK-to-ASK conversion technique. The circuit is implemented in IBM 0.13 μm CMOS technology with 1.2 V supply voltage. This WuRx achieves a data rate of 100 kbps for 0.2 μW power dissipation at -53 dBm input signal. The Rx shows -78 dBm sensitivity for 8 Mbps data rate while consuming 639 μW power.

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