Title :
Design of frequency synthesizer with VCO charged by near infrared for bioinformatics and healthcare wireless applications on robotic nurses
Author :
Wen-Cheng Lai ; Jhin-Fang Huang
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Taipei, Taiwan
Abstract :
This paper presents a wide tuning, low phase noise, and fast locking CMOS frequency synthesizer with 1.8V power supply. The proposed design is operating frequency range of the proposed design is ranged for the local oscillator of the RF front-end circuits. The phase-locked loop (PLL) frequency synthesizer is implemented in TSMC 0.18 μm CMOS process. The main features include the uses of a gate-to-source feedback Colpitts voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) to lower phase noise, and an off-chip tunable low-pass filter to compensate the variations of resistance R and capacitance C to speed locking time and reduce chip area. This chipset has built in near-infrared laser-driven (NIRLD) might be a promising wireless electrical power source technology with human body. This chip can sense ECG and EMG signal and wireless transfer to robotic nurses. The computational biology and bioinformatics sent to healthcare center or research hospital from robotic nurses in control intelligence.
Keywords :
CMOS analogue integrated circuits; bioinformatics; biomedical electronics; frequency synthesizers; health care; integrated circuit design; low-pass filters; medical robotics; phase locked loops; voltage-controlled oscillators; ECG signal; EMG signal; NIRLD; PLL; RF front-end circuits; TSMC CMOS process; VCO; bioinformatics; computational biology; control intelligence; fast locking CMOS frequency synthesizer design; gate-to-source feedback Colpitts voltage-controlled oscillator; healthcare wireless applications; local oscillator; low phase noise CMOS frequency synthesizer; near-infrared laser-driven; off-chip tunable low-pass filter; phase-locked loop; robotic nurses; size 0.18 mum; speed locking time; voltage 1.8 V; wide tuning CMOS frequency synthesizer; wireless electrical power source technology; wireless transfer;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems (ARIS), 2015 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Taipei
DOI :
10.1109/ARIS.2015.7158230