A universal UHF RFID reader IC in 0.18-μm CMOS technology

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1146-1154

  Khannur, Pradeep Basappa ^a,b   Chen, Xuesong ^b   Yan, Dan Lei ^b   Shen, Dan ^b   Zhao, Bin ^b   Raja, M Kumarasamy ^b   Wu, Ye ^b   Sindunata, Rendra ^b   Yeoh, Wooi Gan ^a,b   Singh, Rajinder ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Backscatter modulation; CMOS; Passive transponder; Reader; RFID; RFID interrogator; UHF

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

BACKSCATTER MODULATION; PASSIVE TRANSPONDERS; RFID INTERROGATOR;

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

EID: 42649135857     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2008.920355     Document Type: Conference Paper

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