A 2.2 V 300 /spl mu/A RDS pager baseband decoder

Compared with more advanced wireless telecommunication systems such as GSM, the pager offers the advantages of a lower cost, a smaller size and a longer battery autonomy. Furthermore, the RDS pager system allows reuse of the existing network of FM radio broadcasting stations, reducing the cost of introduction of the pager network and allowing immediately a large geographical coverage. The realization ofthe RDS baseband decoder described is a first step of an attempt to increase the pager battery autonomy from a few weeks to more than a half year.