A 434MHz Wakeup Receiver Analog Frontend based on a Switched Injection-Triggered Oscillator with -91 dBm Input Sensitivity and 175 pJ/bit Efficiency

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Abstract

A 434 MHz analog frontend for wakeup receivers based on a switched injection-triggered oscillator (SITO) designed in IHP SGB25V 250 nm BiCMOS technology is presented. On-off keying (OOK) demodulation is performed by evaluating the ramp-up time of a one-port oscillator. The oscillator drives a dual resonator consisting of an off-chip LC parallel tank in parallel to a surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonator. In conjunction with an antenna switch the SAW resonator alternatingly accumulates signal energy and emits it as a pulse to trigger the oscillator ramp-up. This results in a high measured input sensitivity of -91dBm (without coding) while delivering a narrow measured 3dB input filtering bandwidth of 166kHz due to the high quality factor of the SAW resonator. Bitwise duty cycling leads to an energy efficient receiver frontend with a low measured DC energy per bit of 175pJ. Data rate and DC power can be scaled over a wide range from 100bps at 17.5nW up to 15kbps at 2.6μW (all measured).

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2024 19th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference (EuMIC)
PublisherIEEE
Pages251-254
Number of pages4
ISBN (print)979-8-3503-8512-0
Publication statusPublished - 24 Sept 2024
Peer-reviewedYes

Conference

Title2024 19th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference (EuMIC)
Duration23 - 24 September 2024
LocationParis, France

Keywords

Keywords

  • Antenna measurements, Q-factor, Sensitivity, Power measurement, Surface acoustic waves, Receivers, Switches, Acoustic measurements, Microwave oscillators, Switching circuits