A 10 mW Bluetooth Low-Energy Transceiver With On-Chip Matching Jan Prummel Membe

Abstract

A mass-produced Bluetooth Low-Energy transceiver is presented in classic double frequency VCO architecture fabri- cated in TSMC 55 nm CMOS. The radio part occupies 2.9 mm while the complete SoC occupies 5.9 mm . The transceiver con- sumes 11 mW when receiving at 94 dBm and 10 mW when trans- mitting at 0 dBm. This is roughly a factor 2 lower than benchmark mass-produced designs. The powe r consumption is higher than re- cently published experimental s liding-IF designs, but it does not suffer fro