Noise Analysis of a 434-MHz Wakeup Receiver Analog Frontend Core With − 93-dBm Input Sensitivity and 65-pJ/Bit Efficiency Based on a Switched Injection-Triggered Oscillator With Surface Acoustic Wave Resonator
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Abstract
The noise theory and measurement results of an ultralow-power receiver analog frontend core based on an switched injection-triggered oscillator (SITO) integrated in GlobalFoundries 22 nm fully depleted silicon on insulator (FD-SOI) technology are presented. Both an analytical time-domain description and a frequency-domain noise analysis for the SITO are derived. Using these, the influence of noise on the ramp-up behavior of the SITO is analyzed using a Monte Carlo simulation to predict the input sensitivity. The simulation runtime was reduced by a factor of 2400 compared with circuit simulations. An analog SITO receiver frontend with a Hartley oscillator powered from 0.5 V is designed and implemented. It achieves an input sensitivity of -93 dBm (measured, without coding) and a dc energy consumption per bit of 65 pJ/bit (measured), which improves the energy efficiency of state-of-the-art analog receiver frontends by a factor of 4.3. The measured 3 dB input filtering bandwidth is 136 kHz. The consumed dc power scales with data rate due to bitwise duty cycling from 2 nW at 10 bps up to 3.9μW at 32 kbps (all measured), making it a perfect candidate for wakeup receivers. The noise model is validated by comparing the ramp-up time from measurements with the Monte Carlo simulation.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2723-2738 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | IEEE transactions on microwave theory and techniques |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Early online date | 6 Nov 2024 |
| Publication status | Published - May 2025 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
| ORCID | /0000-0001-6778-7846/work/171551493 |
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| ORCID | /0000-0002-5439-1401/work/171552395 |
| unpaywall | 10.1109/tmtt.2024.3482456 |
| Mendeley | e65e4ef0-6b45-3c6e-9eae-382122742ba1 |
| Scopus | 85208553659 |
Keywords
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Keywords
- Oscillators, Noise, Receivers, Sensitivity, Surface acoustic waves, Resonant frequency, Filtering, Energy efficiency, Switches, Power demand, Analog frontend, noise, oscillator, surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonator, ultralow-power, wakeup receiver