• DocumentCode
    1667824
  • Title

    A 90nm CMOS 5Mb/s crystal-less RF transceiver for RF-powered WSN nodes

  • Author

    Papotto, Giuseppe ; Carrara, Francesco ; Finocchiaro, Alessandro ; Palmisano, Giuseppe

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Catania, Catania, Italy
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    452
  • Lastpage
    454
  • Abstract
    In this work, a batteryless CMOS RF transceiver for WSN nodes is presented. It includes a fully functional receiver for symmetrical RX/TX throughput and exploits narrowband active transmission to improve the uplink reading range without burdening the reader complexity. A PLL-based architecture is adopted both to recover incoming data and synthesize the TX carrier from the input RF signal. This enables crystal-less operation, thus minimizing the system com- plexity and cost.
  • Keywords
    CMOS integrated circuits; phase locked loops; radio transceivers; wireless sensor networks; PLL-based architecture; RF-powered WSN nodes; TX carrier; batteryless CMOS RF transceiver; bit rate 5 Mbit/s; crystal-less RF transceiver; crystal-less operation; input RF signal; narrowband active transmission; size 90 nm; system complexity; CMOS integrated circuits; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency identification; Receivers; Solid state circuits; Transceivers; 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.2012.6177087
  • Filename
    6177087