Self calibrating high sensitivity ultra-low power envelope detector

Author

Chandernagor, L. ; Jean, P. ; Lintignat, J. ; Jarry, B.

Author_Institution

B.U. S&C, B.L. SAS, Caen, France

fYear

2015

fDate

7-10 June 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

An amplitude demodulation system is described here. An envelope detector is connected to the non inverting input of a differential amplifier whereas a reference voltage is applied to its inverting input. This reference is established during a self calibration process and compensates the input offset of the differential amplifier. This mechanism has been designed and implemented within the circuit described in this paper. The circuit is designed in a 160 nm Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor process. A sensitivity of -30 dBm is achieved. It can operate over a wide frequency and temperature ranges, 100 MHz-3 GHz and -55 °C-125 °C respectively. It consumes only a few microwatts.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; amplitude modulation; differential amplifiers; low-power electronics; reference circuits; CMOS process; amplitude demodulation system; differential amplifier; frequency 100 MHz to 3 GHz; reference voltage; self calibrating high sensitivity ultra-low power envelope detector; size 160 nm; temperature -55 degC to 125 degC; Calibration; Capacitors; Differential amplifiers; Envelope detectors; Receivers; Sensitivity; CMOS; Detector; low power; sensors network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS), 2015 IEEE 13th International

Conference_Location

Grenoble

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NEWCAS.2015.7182068

Filename

7182068