Design and analysis of a 1.2V, 2.4 GHz Low Power ASK Transmitter for Wireless Micro Sensor Nodes

Author

Sasilatha, T. ; Raja, J.

fYear

2007

fDate

13-15 Dec. 2007

Firstpage

17

Lastpage

20

Abstract

A 1.2 V, 2.4 GHz ASK transmitter for low-rate WPAN is designed and implemented. The transmitter topology is based on a PLL based direct modulation scheme. Emphasis was placed on observing device reliability constraints such as leakage current, switching current, supply voltage and the operating frequency at low power to maximize the life time of the wireless sensor nodes. Optimizations of architecture and circuit design level in order to reduce the power consumption are described. The performance of the CMOS ASK transmitter is compared with previously reported low power transmitters operating in similar frequency ranges.

Keywords

amplitude shift keying; personal area networks; radio transmitters; reliability; wireless sensor networks; ASK transmitter; CMOS transmitter; PLL; WPAN; device reliability; direct modulation; power consumption; transmitter topology; wireless micro sensor nodes; Amplitude shift keying; Circuit topology; Current supplies; Design optimization; Frequency; Leakage current; Phase locked loops; Transmitters; Voltage; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communication and Sensor Networks, 2007. WCSN '07. Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Allahabad

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1877-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1878-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCSN.2007.4475739

Filename

4475739