Ultra low power oscillator for UHF RFID transponder

Author

Cilek, F. ; Seemann, K. ; Brenk, D. ; Essel, J. ; Heidrich, J. ; Weigel, R. ; Holweg, Gerald

Author_Institution

Inst. for Electron. Eng., Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Nuremberg

fYear

2008

fDate

19-21 May 2008

Firstpage

418

Lastpage

421

Abstract

This paper presents a realization of an ultra low power ring oscillator in 0.14 mum bulk CMOS technology. The application field for this oscillator is the clock generation for a baseband processor of a passive ultra high frequency (UHF) radio frequency identification (RFID) transponder. This technology will play an important role in the field of automatic identification. The paper contains simulation and measurement results for tuning range, cycle to cycle jitter and power consumption with regarding to the control current and supply voltage. The circuit was designed and fabricated by using 0.14 mum bulk CMOS technology.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; UHF oscillators; radiofrequency identification; transponders; UHF RFID transponder; bulk CMOS technology; cycle-to-cycle jitter; power consumption; size 0.14 mum; ultra high frequency-radio frequency identification; ultra low-power oscillator; Baseband; CMOS technology; Circuit simulation; Clocks; Current measurement; Frequency; Power measurement; Radiofrequency identification; Ring oscillators; Transponders;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frequency Control Symposium, 2008 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

1075-6787

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1794-0

Electronic_ISBN

1075-6787

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FREQ.2008.4623031

Filename

4623031