A Passive UHF RFID Tag LSI with 36.6% Efficiency CMOS-Only Rectifier and Current-Mode Demodulator in 0.35/spl mu/m FeRAM Technology

Author

Nakamoto, Hiroyuki ; Yamazaki, D. ; Yamamoto, Takayuki ; Kurata, H. ; Yamada, Shigeru ; Mukaida, Kyosuke ; Ninomiya, Tamotsu ; Ohkawa, Takeshi ; Masui, Shoichi ; Gotoh, Kaoru

Author_Institution

Fujitsu Labs., Kawasaki

fYear

2006

fDate

6-9 Feb. 2006

Firstpage

1201

Lastpage

1210

Abstract

A passive UHF RFID tag LSI in 0.35mum CMOS with 2kb FeRAM enables the 2.9-times higher 32b read-and-write throughput over an EEPROM-based tag. A CMOS full-wave rectifier improves the power efficiency from 16.6% up to 36.6% by lossless internal V_th cancellation and mirror stack architecture. A current-mode ASK demodulator converts the 15% power modulation into linear current signal over a 27dB dynamic range of the incoming power

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; UHF circuits; amplitude shift keying; current-mode circuits; demodulators; large scale integration; radiofrequency identification; random-access storage; rectifying circuits; 0.35 micron; 2 kByte; 32 bit; CMOS full-wave rectifier; EEPROM-based tag; FeRAM technology; LSI; current-mode ASK demodulator; lossless internal cancellation; mirror stack architecture; passive UHF RFID; power efficiency; power modulation; CMOS technology; Demodulation; Ferroelectric films; Large scale integration; Mirrors; Nonvolatile memory; Passive RFID tags; Random access memory; Rectifiers; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2006. ISSCC 2006. Digest of Technical Papers. IEEE International

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

0193-6530

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0079-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696166

Filename

1696166