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The development in the field of advanced biomedical sensors has resulted in a large volume of data being collected and transmitted wirelessly. The IEEE 802.15.6-2012 standard has specified a communication protocol for body area networks, however existing general-purpose communication protocols such as Bluetooth and Zigbee are more widely used due to multiple reasons. One of the critical issues is the lack of baseband processing hardware modules that implement the aforementioned standard. In this paper, the authors propose a baseband transceiver implementation in ASIC, which meets the 802.15.6-2012 standard requirements. Compared to other published designs, the proposed implementation exhibits better performance and low hardware cost, while also offering a complete standard implementation.
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Junchao Wang and Kaining Han want to thank the China Scholarship Council for supporting their research respectively. This work is partially supported by the National Science Foundation of China (Grant nos. 61471075, 61671091, 61701327, 61711540303), University Innovation Team Construction Plan Funding Project of Chongqing (Smart Medical System and Key Techniques, CXTDG201602009), Chongqing Key Laboratory Improvement Plan (Chongqing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic Information Sensing and Transmitting Technology, cstc2014pt-sy40001), Chongqing Research Program of Basic Research and Frontier Technology (cstc2017jcyjBX0057).
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Wang, J., Han, K., Alexandridis, A. et al. A baseband processing ASIC for body area networks. J Ambient Intell Human Comput 10, 3975–3982 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-018-0870-8
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