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Invited - Ultra low power integrated transceivers for near-field IoT

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In this paper, we propose mm-Waves for Near-Field IoT, ultralow power transceivers. With small footprint and no external components, the transceivers could be integrated with the sensors, with the wireless sensor nodes organized in a Master-Slave, asymmetrical network. With low complexity and high energy efficiency, the slave nodes benefit from a minimalist design approach with integrated antennas and integrated resonators for absolute frequency accuracy. Two designs are presented. The first is a K-band, super-regenerative, logarithmic-mode, OOK receiver achieving a peak energy efficiency of 200pJ/bit at 4Mb/s and a BER of 10−3. With 800μW peak and 8μW average power, the sensitivity of the receiver is −60dBm for the same data and bit-error rates. Realized in a 65nm CMOS process from GF, the active area of the receiver is 740×670μm2. The second design is a 100Kb/s, V-band transceiver with integrated antenna. It achieves 20pJ/bit energy efficiency (Rx mode) and it provides means for 1/f noise mitigation.

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    DAC '16: Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Design Automation Conference
    June 2016
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    DOI:10.1145/2897937
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    2. mm-Waves
    3. near-field IoT
    4. transceiver
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    • (2023)A 120GHz Receiver with $1/f$ Noise Mitigation Technique for Near-Field IoT2023 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)10.1109/ISCAS46773.2023.10181670(1-4)Online publication date: 21-May-2023
    • (2019)Understanding Energy Efficiency in IoT App Executions2019 IEEE 39th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)10.1109/ICDCS.2019.00079(742-755)Online publication date: Jul-2019
    • (2017)PPE-ARX: Area- and power-efficient VLIW programmable processing element for IoT crypto-systems2017 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS)10.1109/AHS.2017.8046372(153-160)Online publication date: Jul-2017

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