ISSCC 2018
Session 8
Wireless
A 960pW Co-Integrated-Antenna Wireless Energy Harvester for WiFi Backchannel Wireless Powering
power sensors can enable perpetually powered sensors for several monitoring and asset-tracking IoT applications. Small form factor is often desirable to ensure unobtrusive sensors. However, typical 2.4GHz WiFi output pow
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Session 28
Wireless
A 5.8GHz Power-Harvesting 116μm×116μm ″Dielet″ Near-Field Radio with On-Chip Coil Antenna
would benefit greatly from batteryless compact radios that require no external components. Such a radio could be used for future RFID, wearable/implantable devices, and counter-counterfeit electronics. Previous demonstra
ISSCC 2018
Session 28
Wireless
A 14.5mm2 8nW -59.7dBm-Sensitivity Ultrasonic
unobtrusive, distributed mm-sized nodes capable of sensing and communicating information about their surroundings. Wake-up receivers (WuRXs) – ultra-low-power receivers that monitor their environment for a wake-up signat
ISSCC 2018
Session 28
Wireless
A -76dBm 7.4nW Wakeup Radio with Automatic Offset Compensation
Stephen Pancrazio, N. Scott Barker, Benton H. Calhoun, Steven M. Bowers University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA Event-driven sensor nodes have applications in agriculture, infrastructure, and perimeter monitoring and
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Session 28
Wireless
A 0.2V Energy-Harvesting BLE Transmitter with a Micropower Manager Achieving 25% System Efficiency at 0dBm Output and 5.2nW Sleep Power in 28nm CMOS
Rui P. Martins1,2 University of Macau, Macau, China Instituto Superior Tecnico/University of Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal 1 2 Massive deployment of wireless sensor tags (e.g. iBeacon) will only happen if batteries and their
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Session 28
Wireless
A 0.45V Sub-mW All-Digital PLL in 16nm FinFET for Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE) Modulation and Instantaneous Channel Hopping Using 32.768kHz Reference
short-range wireless transceivers, such as BLE, is to use a crystal oscillator (XO) in the tens-of-MHz range as a frequency reference (FREF) to phase lock an RF oscillator [1-4]. This ensures a sufficiently wide PLL band
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Session 28
Wireless
A 0.8V 0.8mm2 Bluetooth 5/BLE Digital-Intensive Transceiver with a 2.3mW Phase-Tracking RX Utilizing a Hybrid Loop Filter for Interference Resilience in 40nm CMOS
Kenichi Shibata2, Minyoung Song1, Hannu Korpela1, Keisuke Ueda2, Yao-Hong Liu1, Christian Bachmann1, Kathleen Philips1 imec - Holst Centre, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Renesas Electronics, Tokyo, Japan 1 2 This paper pres
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Session 28
Wireless
An ADPLL-Centric Bluetooth Low-Energy Transceiver with 2.3mW Interference-Tolerant Hybrid-Loop Receiver and 2.9mW Single-Point Polar Transmitter in 65nm CMOS
achieving ultra-low-power (ULP) operation for Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. As more and more devices will be connected and access to the Internet, the wireless traffic will be extremely crowded in the 2.4GHz ISM
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Session 28
Wireless
An 802.11ax 4×4 Spectrum-Efficient WLAN AP Transceiver SoC Supporting 1024QAM with Frequency-Dependent IQ Calibration and Integrated Interference Analyzer
Asuka Maki3, Tomohiko Takeuchi3, Hiroyuki Kobayashi3, Go Urakawa3, Hiroaki Hoshino3, Shigehito Saigusa3, Kazushi Koyama4, Makoto Morita2, Ryuichi Nihei2, Daisuke Goto2, Motoki Nagata3, Kengo Nakata3, Katsuyuki Ikeuchi1,
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Session 7
Wireless
A 118mW 23.3GS/s Dual-Band 7.3GHz and 8.7GHz Impulse-Based Direct RF Sampling Radar SoC in 55nm CMOS
Sumit Bagga1, Håkon A. Hjortland1, Mats Risopatron Knutsen1, Tor Sverre Lande2, Dag T. Wisland1,2 Novelda AS, Oslo, Norway University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway 1 2 Radar sensors find use in a wide range of applications [1–4]
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Session 7
Wireless
A +8dBm BLE/BT Transceiver with Automatically Calibrated Integrated RF Bandpass Filter and -58dBc TX HD2
Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications, highly integrated ultra-low-power (ULP) RF transceivers are essential, and numerous solutions have been proposed [3,4]. These architectures address the less-stringent Bluetooth Low-
ISSCC 2017
Session 7
Wireless
A TCXO-Less 100Hz-Minimum-Bandwidth Transceiver for Ultra-Narrow-Band Sub-GHz IoT Cellular Networks
Christophe Fourtet2, Laurent Ouvry1, Florent Lepin1, Eric Mercier1, Steve Hamard2, Lionel Zirphile2, Sébastien Thuries1, Fabrice Chaix1 CEA-LETI-MINATEC, Grenoble, France Sigfox, Labège, France 1 2 Ultra-narrow-band (UNB
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Session 7
Wireless
A 915MHz Asymmetric Radio Using Q-Enhanced Amplifier for a Fully Integrated 3×3×3mm3 Wireless Sensor Node with 20m Non-Line-of-Sight Communication
Zhiyoong Foo1,2, Gyouho Kim1,2, Yejoong Kim1,2, Anthony Grbic1, David Wentzloff1, Hun-Seok Kim1, David Blaauw1 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI CubeWorks, Ann Arbor, MI 1 2 Enabling long range (>10m) wireless commun
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Session 7
Wireless
A 40nm Low-Power Transceiver for LTE-A Carrier Aggregation
Chung-Yun Chou1, Sheng-Che Tseng1, Chih-Hsien Shen1, Yu-Tsung Lu1, Hsinhung Chen1, Song-Yu Yang1, Yen-Tso Chen1, Guang-Kaai Dehng1, Yangjian Chen2, Christophe Beghein2, Dimitris Nalbantis2, Manel Collados2, Bernard Tenbr
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Session 7
Wireless
A 28GHz 32-Element Phased-Array Transceiver IC with Concurrent Dual Polarized Beams and 1.4 Degree Beam-Steering Resolution for 5G Communication
Scott Reynolds1, Örjan Renström3, Kristoffer Sjögren2, Olov Haapalahti3, Nadav Mazor4, Bo Bokinge3, Gustaf Weibull2, Håkan Bengtsson3, Anders Carlinger3, Eric Westesson5, Jan-Erik Thillberg3, Leonard Rexberg3, Mark Yeck1
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Session 7
Wireless
An 802.11ac Dual-Band Reconfigurable Transceiver Supporting up to Four VHT80 Spatial Streams with 116fsrms-Jitter Frequency Synthesizer and Integrated LNA/PA Delivering 256QAM 19dBm per Stream Achieving 1.733Gb/s PHY Rate
Ming-Chung Liu1, Po-Yu Chang1, Chia-Jen Liang1, Yi-Chu Chen1, Hsi-Liang Lu1, Jian-Yu Ding1, Chin-Chung Wang1, Yu-Li Hsueh1, Jen-Che Tsai1, Min-Shun Hsu1, Yuan-Hung Chung1, George Chien2 MediaTek, Hsinchu, Taiwan; 2MediaT
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Session 24
Wireless
A 128-QAM 60GHz CMOS Transceiver for IEEE802.11ay with Calibration of LO Feedthrough and I/Q Imbalance
Masato Dome, Hisashi Kato, Makihiko Katsuragi, Kento Kimura, Satoshi Kondo, Yuki Terashima, Hanli Liu, Teerachot Siriburanon, Aravind Tharayil Narayanan, Nurul Fajri, Tohru Kaneko, Toru Yoshioka, Bangan Liu, Yun Wang, Ru
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Session 24
Wireless
A 14nm Fractional-N Digital PLL with 0.14psrms Jitter and -78dBc Fractional Spur for Cellular RFICs
Haoyang Li1, Kunal Godbole1, Yongrong Zuo1, Sangsoo Ko2, Nam-Seog Kim2, Sangwook Han2, Ikkyun Jo2, Joonhee Lee2, Juyoung Han2, Daehyeon Kwon2, Chulho Kim2, Shinwoong Kim2, Sang Won Son1, Thomas Byunghak Cho2 Samsung Semi
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Session 24
Wireless
A 673μW 1.8-to-2.5GHz Dividerless Fractional-N Digital PLL with an Inherent Frequency-Capture Capability and a Phase-Dithering Spur Mitigation for IoT Applications
Belgium 1 2 The Internet-of-Things (IoT) is gaining momentum, and the ultra-low-power (ULP) RF transceiver is one of the key enablers. Generation of the local oscillator (LO) consumes a significant share of the total ene
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Session 24
Wireless
A Time-Interleaved Filtering-by-Aliasing Receiver Front-End with >70dB Suppression at <4×Bandwidth Frequency Offset
Programmable receiver front-ends have been a topic of enormous interest in recent years. Both N-path filtering [1,2] and charge-domain filtering [2] achieve sharp filtering but suffer from poor matching [1] or high noise
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Session 24
Wireless
A 4.5nW Wake-Up Radio with -69dBm Sensitivity
Gabriel M. Rebeiz, Drew A. Hall, Patrick P. Mercier University of California, San Diego, CA Wake-up receivers (WuRXs) are low-power radios that continuously monitor the RF environment to wake up a higher-power radio upon
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Session 24
Wireless
A 0.18V 382μW Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE) Receiver with 1.33nW Sleep Power for Energy-Harvesting Applications in 28nm CMOS
Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal 1 2 For true mobility, wearable electronics should be self-powered by the environment. On-body thermoelectric (~50μW/cm2) is a maturing energy source but deliv
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Session 24
Wireless
A High-Linearity CMOS Receiver Achieving +44dBm IIP3 and +13dBm B1dB for SAW-Less LTE Radio
high-linearity up-front filtering to prevent corruption of the in-band signals by strong out-of-band (OOB) signals and selfinterference from the transmitter. SAW duplexer filters are generally used for this purpose, but
ISSCC 2017
Session 24
Wireless
A 0.1-to-3.1GHz 4-Element MIMO Receiver Array Supporting Analog/RF Arbitrary Spatial Filtering
Digital receiver (RX) arrays featuring ADCs at each element enable massive multiin-multi-out (MIMO) applications, but since spatial interference rejection is absent in the RF/analog domain, RF/analog/ADC dynamic range is
ISSCC 2017
Session 24
Wireless
A 770pJ/b 0.85V 0.3mm2 DCO-Based Phase-Tracking RX Featuring Direct Demodulation and Data-Aided Carrier Tracking for IoT Applications
Johan Dijkhuis1, Robert Bogdan Staszewski2,3, Christian Bachmann1, Kathleen Philips1 Holst Centre / imec, Eindhoven, The Netherlands 2 Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands 3 University College Dublin, D
ISSCC 2017
Session 22
Wireless
An AC-Input Inductorless LED Driver for Visible-LightCommunication Applications with 8Mb/s Data-Rate and 6.4% Low-Frequency Flicker
Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are becoming the dominant lighting source over their conventional counterparts. Besides the benefits of high efficiency and long lifetime, LEDs also show great potential for high-speed data t
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Session 22
Wireless
An Inductively-Coupled Wireless Power-Transfer System that is Immune to Distance and Load Variations
University of California, Los Angeles, CA Biomedical implants are often powered by an external source via an inductivelycoupled wireless power link. During actual use the distance between the external and implant coils m
ISSCC 2017
Session 22
Wireless
A Fully Integrated Counter-Flow Energy Reservoir for 70%-Efficient Peak-Power Delivery in Ultra-LowPower Systems
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Recent advances in circuits have enabled significant reduction in the size of wireless systems such as implantable biomedical devices. As a consequence, the battery integrated in the
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Session 22
Wireless
A 93%-Power-Efficiency Photovoltaic Energy Harvester with Irradiance-Aware Auto-Reconfigurable MPPT Scheme Achieving >95% MPPT Efficiency Across 650μW to 1W and 2.9ms FOCV MPPT Transient Time
With more and more functions in modern battery-powered mobile devices, enabling light-harvesting in the power management system can extend battery usage time [1]. For both indoor and outdoor operations of mobile devices,
ISSCC 2017
Session 22
Wireless
A Reconfigurable Bidirectional Wireless Power Transceiver with Maximum-Current Charging Mode and 58.6% Battery-to-Battery Efficiency
Synopsys Macau, Macau, China 3 Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal 1 2 a And the MUX7 needs to conduct the same current as MP and MN, which will double the area and conduction loss. 2) Under the
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Session 22
Wireless
Adaptive Reconfigurable Voltage/Current-Mode Power Management with Self-Regulation for ExtendedRange Inductive Power Transmission
Wireless power transmission (WPT) via inductive coupling is used in many applications such as biomedical implants, sensors, and radio-frequency identification (RFID). Range extension, robustness against load (RL) variati
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Session 22
Wireless
A 1.7mm2 Inductorless Fully Integrated FlippingCapacitor Rectifier (FCR) for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting with 483% Power-Extraction Enhancement
Rui P. Martins1,3 University of Macau, Macau, China Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China 3 Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal 1 2 Energy Harvesting is crucial to the
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Session 22
Wireless
A Self-Tuning Resonant Inductive Link Transmit Driver Using Quadrature-Symmetric Phase-Switched Fractional Capacitance
University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom Inductive coupling for power transfer is increasingly popular in many applications such as RFID and wireless charging. While much recent work has focussed on receive
ISSCC 2017
Session 18
Wireless
A Single-Port Duplex RF Front-End for X-Band SingleAntenna FMCW Radar in 65nm CMOS
Frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radars can provide high resolution and superior sensitivity for wireless sensing [1-3]. Radar signals, whose frequency increases or decreases linearly with time, are transmitted
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Session 18
Wireless
Highly-Linear Integrated Magnetic-Free CirculatorReceiver for Full-Duplex Wireless
implementation of low-cost, small-form-factor, integrated shared-antenna (ANT) interfaces with low loss, low noise, high TX-RX isolation, and large TX power handling. Providing more TX-RX isolation in the ANT interface t
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Session 18
Wireless
A 1.7-to-2.2GHz Full-Duplex Transceiver System with >50dB Self-Interference Cancellation over 42MHz Bandwidth
Full-duplex (FD) radio communication potentially doubles the spectral efficiency in the densely occupied RF spectrum (100MHz to 5GHz). However, significant challenges remain, particularly the presence of a strong transmi
ISSCC 2016
Session 9
Wireless
Receiver with Integrated Magnetic-Free N-Path-Filter-Based Non-Reciprocal Circulator and Baseband Self-Interference Cancellation for Full-Duplex Wireless
Full-duplex (FD) is an emergent wireless communication paradigm where the transmitter (TX) and the receiver (RX) operate at the same time and at the same frequency. The fundamental challenge with FD is the tremendous amo
ISSCC 2016
Session 9
Wireless
A Self-Calibrated 10Mb/s Phase Modulator
-246.6dB-FOM, Fractional-N Subsampling PLL Nereo Markulic1,2, Kuba Raczkowski1, Ewout Martens1, Pedro Emiliano Paro Filho1,2, Benjamin Hershberg1, Piet Wambacq1,2, Jan Craninckx1 imec, Leuven, Belgium, Vrije Universiteit
ISSCC 2016
Session 9
Wireless
A Dual-Band Digital-WiFi 802.11a/b/g/n Transmitter SoC with Digital I/Q Combining and Diamond Profile Mapping for Compact Die Area and Improved Efficiency in 40nm CMOS
Dimitris Papadopoulos1, Bryan Huang1, Ray Chen1, Hua Wang1, WH Hsu2, CH Wu2, Osama Shanaa1 MediaTek, San Jose, CA, MediaTek, Hsinchu, Taiwan 1 2 Digital transmitters (DTX) have gained interest in the past few years becau
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Session 9
Wireless
A 2×2 WLAN and Bluetooth Combo SoC in 28nm CMOS with On-Chip WLAN Digital Power
Renaldi Winoto1, Ashkan Olyaei1, Mohammad Hajirostam1, Wai Lau1, Xiang Gao1, Arnab Mitra1, Ovidiu Carnu1, Philip Godoy1, Luns Tee1, Hao Li1, Erdem Erdogan1, Alden Wong1, Qiang Zhu1, Timothy Loo1, Fan Zhang1, Liwei Sheng1
ISSCC 2016
Session 9
Wireless
A Very-Low-Noise Frequency-Translational Quadrature-Hybrid Receiver for Carrier Aggregation
To meet the demands of ever-increasing data throughput, carrier aggregation (CA) across frequency bands is becoming necessary. Different regional spectrum allocations lead to a large number of band combinations and chall
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Session 9
Wireless
A Scalable 0.1-to-1.7GHz Spatio-SpectralFiltering 4-Element MIMO Receiver Array with Spatial Notch Suppression Enabling Digital Beamforming
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 1 2 Multiple-antenna receivers offer numerous advantages over single-antenna receivers, including sensitivity improvement, ability to reject interferers spatially and enhancement of
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Session 9
Wireless
A 45nm CMOS RF-to-Bits LTE/WCDMA FDD/TDD 2×2 MIMO Base-Station Transceiver SoC with 200MHz RF Bandwidth
S. Uppathil1, S. Kaylor1, A. Akour1, V. Wang1, M. Fares1, F. Dulger1, A. Frank1, D. Ghosh1, S. Madhavapeddi1, H. Safiri1, J. Mehta1, A. Jain1, H. Choo1, E. Zhang1, C. Sestok1, C. Fernando1, Rajagopal K.A. 2, S. Ramakrish
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Session 26
Wireless
A 0.038mm2 SAW-less Multiband Transceiver Using an N-Path SC Gain Loop
Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal 1 2 N-path filtering has been intensely rekindled as a replacement of costly SAW filters, making possible of multiband blocker-tolerant receivers (RXs) at small area and power
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Session 26
Wireless
A 236nW -56.5dBm-Sensitivity Bluetooth Low-Energy Wakeup Receiver with Energy Harvesting in 65nm CMOS
Stuart N. Wooters1, Yousef Shakhsheer1, Benton H. Calhoun1, David D. Wentzloff2 PsiKick, Charlottesville, VA, 2PsiKick, Ann Arbor, MI 1 Batteryless operation and ultra-low-power (ULP) wireless communication will be two k
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Session 26
Wireless
A 10mm3 Syringe-Implantable Near-Field Radio System on Glass Substrate
system for ultra-low-power (ULP) healthcare sensor nodes. It is specifically designed for ‘syringe implantation’ which minimizes invasiveness of implantation. Designing a millimeter-scale wireless node for implanted heal
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Session 26
Wireless
A Programmable Receiver Front-End Achieving >17dBm IIP3 at <1.25×BW Frequency Offset
University of California, Los Angeles, CA, Silvus Technologies, Los Angeles, CA 1 2 Recent work on highly selective reconfigurable radios has focused on techniques such as DT analog signal processing [1], N-path filterin
ISSCC 2016
Session 26
Wireless
A 0.7V 1.5-to-2.3mW GNSS Receiver with 2.5-to-3.8dB NF in 28nm FD-SOI
Hitoshi Tomiyama1, Hideyuki Takano1, Fumitaka Kondo1, Yusuke Shinohe1, Hidenori Takeuchi1, Nobuhisa Ozawa1, Shingo Harada2, Shinichiro Eto2, Mari Kishikawa3, Daisuke Ide3, Hiroyasu Tagami3, Masayuki Katakura3, Norio Shoj
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Session 26
Wireless
A 160-to-960MHz ETSI Class-1-Compliant IoE
Niall Kearney1, Charley Billon1, Michael Deeney1, Eric Evans2, Kalim Khan1, Hongxing Li3, Siwen Liang2, Kenneth Mulvaney1, Keith A. O’Donoghue1, Shane O’Mahony1, Philip Quinlan1, Sivanendra Selvanayagam2, Sudarshan Onkar
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Session 26
Wireless
A 1.3nJ/b IEEE 802.11ah Fully Digital Polar Transmitter for IoE Applications
Benjamin Busze, Jordy Gloudemans, Peter Vis, Johan Dijkhuis, Christian Bachmann, Guido Dolmans, Kathleen Philips, Harmke de Groot Holst Centre / imec, Eindhoven, The Netherlands This paper presents an ultra-low-power (UL