A high-sensitivity fully passive wake-up radio front-end for wireless sensor nodes

Author

Kamalinejad, Pouya ; Keikhosravy, Kamyar ; Magno, M. ; Mirabbasi, Shahriar ; Leung, Victor C. M. ; Benini, Luca

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

fYear

2014

fDate

10-13 Jan. 2014

Firstpage

209

Lastpage

210

Abstract

A high-sensitivity fully passive 868-MHz wake-up radio (WUR) front-end for wireless sensor network nodes is presented. The front-end does not have an external power source and extracts the entire energy from the radio-frequency (RF) signal received at the antenna. A high-efficiency differential RF-to-DC converter rectifies the incident RF signal and drives the circuit blocks including a low-power comparator and reference generators; and at the same time detects the envelope of the on-off keying (OOK) wake-up signal. The front-end is designed and simulated 0.13μm CMOS and achieves a sensitivity of -33 dBm for a 100 kbps wake-up signal.

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; amplitude shift keying; comparators (circuits); low-power electronics; reference circuits; wireless sensor networks; CMOS design; CMOS simulation; OOK wake-up signal; RF signal; bit rate 100 kbit/s; circuit blocks; frequency 868 MHz; high-efficiency differential RF-to-DC converter; high-sensitivity fully passive WUR front-end; high-sensitivity fully-passive wake-up radio front-end; low-power comparator; on-off keying wake-up signal; radiofrequency signal; reference generators; size 0.13 mum; wireless sensor network nodes; Generators; Power demand; Radio frequency; Receivers; Transceivers; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2014 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

ISSN

2158-3994

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1290-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCE.2014.6775976

Filename

6775976