A 350 W CMOS MSK Transmitter and 400 W OOK Super-Regenerative Receiver for Medical Implant Communications

JL Bohorquez, AP Chandrakasan… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in the medical field are spurring the need for ultra-low power transceivers
for wireless communication with medical implants. To deal with the growing demand for …

An ultralow-power receiver for wireless sensor networks

J Ayers, K Mayaram, TS Fiez - IEEE Journal of solid-state …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An ultralow-power super-regenerative receiver for BFSK modulated signals has been
designed and fabricated in a standard 0.18-μm CMOS process. The use of BFSK modulation …

A survey of low-power transceivers and their applications

J Blanckenstein, J Klaue, H Karl - IEEE Circuits and Systems …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In wireless sensor networks (WSNs) energy efficiency and communication reliability are
often conflicting requirements. Additionally, some application areas such as industrial …

Ultra-low-power wireless systems: Energy-efficient radios for the Internet of Things

A Burdett - IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An ultra-low-power wireless system is one which has to operate for an extended period of
time with only a limited power source available, and is typically constrained to a limited size …

Frequency-domain analysis of super-regenerative amplifiers

JL Bohorquez, AP Chandrakasan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since its invention in 1922, the super-regenerative amplifier (SRA) has been used in a
variety of short-range, low-power, and/or low-cost wireless systems due to its simple …

On the human body communications: wake-up receiver design and channel characterization

J Petäjäjärvi, K Mikhaylov, R Vuohtoniemi… - EURASIP Journal on …, 2016 - Springer
By modulating the electric field induced to a human body, it is possible to transfer data
wirelessly using the body as a transmission medium. This method is referred to as human …

A low-power, low-voltage WBAN-compatible sub-sampling PSK receiver in 65 nm CMOS

J Cheng, N Qi, PY Chiang… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A PSK receiver (RX) is proposed that employs a digital-intensive architecture based on sub-
sampling, Q-enhancement, and digital IF to enable low-power (1.3 mW) and low-voltage (0.6 …

Ultra low power wireless and energy harvesting technologies—An ideal combination

L Huang, V Pop, R De Francisco… - 2010 IEEE …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Rapid developments of energy harvesting in the past decade have significantly increased
the efficiency of devices in converting ambient free energy into usable electrical energy, thus …

Noise analysis of phase-demodulating receivers employing super-regenerative amplification

DG Lee, PP Mercier - IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Growing interest in ultralow-power radio frequency receivers has reinvigorated research in
super-regenerative amplifier (SRA) architectures, in part due to their ability to achieve …

A superregenerative QPSK receiver

P Palà-Schönwälder, J Bonet-Dalmau… - … on Circuits and …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we present a description and experimental verification of a superregenerative
receiver (SR) for QPSK signals. Exploiting the fact that a conventional SR generates pulses …