A 1.9nJ/bit 2.4GHz multistandard (bluetooth low energy/zigbee/ IEEE802.15.6) transceiver for personal/body area networks

Y.-H. Liu; Xiongchuan Huang; Maja Vidojkovic; A. Ba; P.J.A. Harpe; G. Dolmans; H.W.H. Groot, de

doi:10.1109/ISSCC.2013.6487808

A 1.9nJ/bit 2.4GHz multistandard (bluetooth low energy/zigbee/ IEEE802.15.6) transceiver for personal/body area networks

Y.-H. Liu, Xiongchuan Huang, Maja Vidojkovic, A. Ba, P.J.A. Harpe, G. Dolmans, H.W.H. Groot, de

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This paper presents a multistandard ultra-low-power (ULP) 2.36/2.4GHz transceiver for personal and body-area networks (PAN/BAN). The presented radio complies with 3 short-range standards: Bluetooth Low Energy (BT-LE), IEEE802.15.4 (ZigBee) and IEEE802.15.6 (Medical Body-Area Networks, MBAN). A proprietary 2Mb/s mode is also implemented to support data-streaming applications like hearing aids. Current short-range radios for Zigbee and BT-LE typically consume more than 20mW DC power, which is rather high for autonomous systems with limited battery energy. The dual-mode MBAN/BT-LE transceiver achieves a power consumption of 6.5mW for the RX and 5.9mW for the TX by employing a sliding-IF RX and a polar TX architecture. However, it suffers from limited RX image rejection and needs a PA operating at a higher supply voltage. In this paper, an energy-efficient radio architecture with a suitable LO frequency plan is selected, and several efficiency-enhancement techniques for the critical RF circuits (e.g., a push-pull mixer and a digitally-assisted PA) are utilized. As a result, the presented transceiver dissipates only 3.8mW (RX) and 4.6mW (TX) DC power from a 1.2V supply, while exceeding all of the PHY requirements of above 3 standards.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers (ISSCC), 17-21 February 2013, San Francisco, California
Place of Publication	Piscataway
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages	446-447
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4673-4515-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2013.6487808
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	60th IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, ISSCC 2013 - San Francisco, United States Duration: 17 Feb 2013 → 21 Feb 2013 Conference number: 60

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Conference	60th IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, ISSCC 2013
Abbreviated title	ISSCC 2013
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Francisco
Period	17/02/13 → 21/02/13
Other	“60 Years of (Em)Powering the Future”

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Liu, Y-H., Huang, X., Vidojkovic, M., Ba, A., Harpe, P. J. A., Dolmans, G., & Groot, de, H. W. H. (2013). A 1.9nJ/bit 2.4GHz multistandard (bluetooth low energy/zigbee/ IEEE802.15.6) transceiver for personal/body area networks. In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers (ISSCC), 17-21 February 2013, San Francisco, California (pp. 446-447). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2013.6487808

Liu, Y.-H. ; Huang, Xiongchuan ; Vidojkovic, Maja et al. / A 1.9nJ/bit 2.4GHz multistandard (bluetooth low energy/zigbee/ IEEE802.15.6) transceiver for personal/body area networks. Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers (ISSCC), 17-21 February 2013, San Francisco, California. Piscataway : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2013. pp. 446-447

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Liu Y-H, Huang X, Vidojkovic M, Ba A, Harpe PJA , Dolmans G et al. A 1.9nJ/bit 2.4GHz multistandard (bluetooth low energy/zigbee/ IEEE802.15.6) transceiver for personal/body area networks. In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers (ISSCC), 17-21 February 2013, San Francisco, California. Piscataway: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. 2013. p. 446-447 doi: 10.1109/ISSCC.2013.6487808

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