A 98nW wake-up radio for wireless body area networks

Nathan E. Roberts, David D. Wentzloff

2012 · 94 citations · 6 references

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Abstract

A 0.13μm CMOS low power wake-up radio is presented. The wake-up radio operates with -41dBm sensitivity at 915MHz using OOK modulation with a data rate of 100kbps while consuming 98nW active power, 11pW sleep power, and has an energy efficiency of 0.98pJ/bit. The wake-up radio occupies 0.03mm <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> and uses two off-chip components (an inductor and a capacitor). All biasing and calibration for process variation and mismatch is included on-chip. The entire radio operates from a single 1.2V supply.

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