A batteryless 19μW MICS/ISM-band energy harvesting body area sensor node SoC

Author

Zhang, Fan ; Zhang, Yanqing ; Silver, Jason ; Shakhsheer, Yousef ; Nagaraju, Manohar ; Klinefelter, Alicia ; Pandey, Jagdish ; Boley, James ; Carlson, Eric ; Shrivastava, Aatmesh ; Otis, Brian ; Calhoun, Benton

Author_Institution

Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

fYear

2012

Firstpage

298

Lastpage

300

Abstract

Recent advances in ultra-low power chip design techniques, many originally targeting wireless sensor networks, will enable a new generation of body-worn devices for health monitoring. We utilize the state-of-the-art in low power RF transmitters, low voltage boost circuits, subthreshold processing, biosignal front-ends, dynamic power management, and energy harvesting to realize an integrated reconfigurable wireless body-area-sensor node (BASN) SoC capable of autonomous power management for battery-free operation.

Keywords

biomedical electronics; biomedical transducers; body sensor networks; energy harvesting; low-power electronics; network synthesis; radio transmitters; system-on-chip; autonomous dynamic power management; batteryless MICS-ISM-band energy harvesting body area sensor node SoC; biosignal front-end; body-worn device; health monitoring; integrated reconfigurable wireless BASN SoC; integrated reconfigurable wireless body-area-sensor node SoC; low power RF transmitter; low voltage boost circuit; power 19 muW; subthreshold processing; ultralow power chip design technique; wireless sensor network; Electrocardiography; Energy harvesting; Solid state circuits; System-on-a-chip; Transmitters; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers (ISSCC), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

0193-6530

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0376-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSCC.2012.6177004

Filename

6177004