Low-Power Wireless Transceiver with 67-nW Differential Pulse-Position Modulation Transmitter

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
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2020-12
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en
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14
5468-5481
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IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, Volume 67, issue 12
Abstract
This article presents a low-power wireless narrowband (NB) transceiver consisting of a 434-MHz NB transmitter (NBTX) and a 434-MHz NB receiver (NBRX) implemented in 0.18 μ m CMOS. The NBTX utilizes differential pulse-position modulation (DPPM) to decrease consumed energy per bit (EPB) by up to 67% compared to on-off keying (OOK). The packet error performance of DPPM with a soft-decision decoding scheme is analyzed. According to the results, the packet error ratio (PER) does not deteriorate compared to OOK except at very low signal-to-noise levels. The lowest power consumption of the NBTX is 8.3 μ W when DPPM data is transmitted continuously. Utilizing packet-mode transmission, the average power consumption is 67 nW at a data rate of 4.8 kbps. The transmitted data was received with a PER of 0.1% by a receiver placed at a 30-meter distance from the NBTX. With a higher power consumption of 2.5 μ W at the same data rate, the estimated line-of-sight (LOS) uplink range is up to 200 meters. The NBRX is a mixer-first uncertain-IF receiver. A temperature-compensated ring oscillator (TCRO) is utilized as a local oscillator. Its measured deviation of frequency is from +0.1% to -1.2% over a temperature range from -40 to +85 °C. The NBRX utilizes Manchester encoding and the sensitivity is -87 to -82 dBm over the temperature range at a data rate of 40 kbps. The NBRX consumes 85 μ W.
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differential pulse-position modulation, energy efficiency, hard-decision, Internet of Things, Narrowband, on-off keying, receiver, ring oscillator, soft-decision, temperature compensation, transceiver, transmitter, uncertain-IF
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Pulkkinen, M, Haapala, T, Salomaa, J & Halonen, K 2020, ' Low-Power Wireless Transceiver with 67-nW Differential Pulse-Position Modulation Transmitter ', IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 67, no. 12, 9161276, pp. 5468-5481 . https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSI.2020.3013065