Hugo García-Vázquez

ON-CHIP INDUCTORS OPTIMIZATION FOR ULTRA WIDE BAND LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS ¤

In this work, the influence of the inductor quality factor in wide band low noise amplifiers has been studied. Electromagnetic simulations have been used to model the integrated inductor broad band response. The influence of the quality factor on LNA performance of the inductors that compound the impedance matching networks, inductive degeneration and broadband load has been studied, obtaining design guidelines for optimizing the amplifier gain flatness. Using this guidelines, an LNA with wideband input matching, shunt-peaking load, and an output buffer was designed. Using Austria Mikro Systems BiCMOS 0.35 m process, a prototype has been fabricated achieving the following measured specifications: maximum gain of 12.5 dB at 3.4 GHz with a -3 dB bandwidth of 1.7–5.3 GHz, noise figure from 4.3 to 5.2 dB, and unity gain at 9.4 GHz.

Europe and the Future for WPT: European Contributions to Wireless Power Transfer Technology

This article presents European-based contributions for wireless power transmission (WPT), related to applications ranging from future Internet of Things (IoT) and fifth-generation (5G) systems to high-power electric vehicle charging. The contributors are all members of a European consortium on WPT, COST Action IC1301. WPT is the driving technology that will enable the next stage in the current consumer electronics revolution, including batteryless sensors, passive RF identification (RFID), passive wireless sensors, the IoT, and machine-to-machine solutions. The article discusses the latest developments in research by some of the members of this group.This article presents recent European-based contributions for wireless power transmission (WPT), related to applications ranging from future Internet of Things (IoT) and fifth-generation (5G) systems to highpower electric vehicle charging. The contributors are all members of a European consortium on WPT, COST Action IC1301 (Table 1). WPT is the driving technology that will enable the next stage in the current consumer electronics revolution, including batteryless sensors, passive RF identification (RFID), passive wireless sensors, the IoT, and machine-to-machine solutions.

Europe and the future for WPT

This article presents European-based contributions for wireless power transmission (WPT), related to applications ranging from future Internet of Things (IoT) and fifth-generation (5G) systems to high-power electric vehicle charging. The contributors are all members of a European consortium on WPT, COST Action IC1301. WPT is the driving technology that will enable the next stage in the current consumer electronics revolution, including batteryless sensors, passive RF identification (RFID), passive wireless sensors, the IoT, and machine-to-machine solutions. The article discusses the latest developments in research by some of the members of this group.This article presents recent European-based contributions for wireless power transmission (WPT), related to applications ranging from future Internet of Things (IoT) and fifth-generation (5G) systems to highpower electric vehicle charging. The contributors are all members of a European consortium on WPT, COST Action IC1301 (Table 1). WPT is the driving technology that will enable the next stage in the current consumer electronics revolution, including batteryless sensors, passive RF identification (RFID), passive wireless sensors, the IoT, and machine-to-machine solutions.

A high sensitivity and low power envelope detector for wireless sensor nodes

In this paper different parts of a wake-up receiver for wireless sensor node are presented. The circuit is composed of an amplifier with input impedance matching network and an envelope detector both working at 868 MHz. The amplifier is incorporated in order to increase the sensitivity of the wake-up receiver. The amplified signal passes to the envelope detector which demodulate on-off keying signal at 125 kHz. The circuits have been designed to optimize power consumption and area. The total power consumption and the minimum signal detected are 44.32 uW and 0.4 mVp respectively. The circuits were implemented in UMC CMOS 65 nm process.

Europe and the future for WPT COST action IC1301 team

This article presents European-based contributions for wireless power transmission (WPT), related to applications ranging from future Internet of Things (IoT) and fifth-generation (5G) systems to high-power electric vehicle charging. The contributors are all members of a European consortium on WPT, COST Action IC1301. WPT is the driving technology that will enable the next stage in the current consumer electronics revolution, including batteryless sensors, passive RF identification (RFID), passive wireless sensors, the IoT, and machine-to-machine solutions. The article discusses the latest developments in research by some of the members of this group.This article presents recent European-based contributions for wireless power transmission (WPT), related to applications ranging from future Internet of Things (IoT) and fifth-generation (5G) systems to highpower electric vehicle charging. The contributors are all members of a European consortium on WPT, COST Action IC1301 (Table 1). WPT is the driving technology that will enable the next stage in the current consumer electronics revolution, including batteryless sensors, passive RF identification (RFID), passive wireless sensors, the IoT, and machine-to-machine solutions.

A 65-nm CMOS battery-less temperature sensor node for RF-powered wireless sensor networks

This work presents the design of a temperature sensor in a 65nm CMOS technology, which is powered by harvesting the electromagnetic energy in the ISM frequency band (2.4GHz). The power consumption of the sensor was substantially reduced so that the energy required to operate could be stored in a 50μF external capacitor. The rectifier sensitivity has been improved so as to allow autonomous operation from a distance of 2m to a conventional Wi-Fi transmitter (2.4GHz@100mW). To achieving these features, all circuits were designed for operating at 0.5V supply voltage. The measured temperature value is transmitted within another frequency band, the European UHF (867 MHz), by using 4-FSK modulation.

Different strategies to improve sensitivity and power of the wake-up receivers

In this paper different alternatives of wake-up receiver in ultra-low power wireless sensor nodes are studied. The limitations of power dissipation, area or cost require a holistic approach to the problem, taking into account every stage of design such as the architecture and the radio frequency sub-system. Reduce data communication only when necessary can be achieved using two radios, one for standard communication as transceiver and another devoted to wake-up receiver. The wake-up receiver listens the input signal to detect the addressed bit sequence. This work deals with the wake-up receiver design of different architectures. A comparison of the trade-off between them is performed. In each case characteristics such as sensitivity or distances with low power consumption are exposed. The input signal of the wireless sensor node is a 125 kHz on-off keying modulated at 868 MHz and the circuits are designed to operate in 868 MHz band. A first option is used a tuned radio frequency architecture with a discrete detector with Schottky diode to demodulates the OOK signal. The following structure is with an envelope detector where the envelope detector is designed in weak inversion to have a low consumption. Is possible improve the voltage gain including an impedance matching in the input of the detector. Other option is including an amplifier before the detector to improve detector sensitivity. The amplifier with active inductor has to be in subthreshold region to have moderate power consumption. The circuits are designed in UMC CMOS 65 nm technology with 1.2 V supply.