Ultra low-power techniques for sensor-enhanced RFID tags

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Wireless Sensing, Local Positioning and RFID, Proceedings, IMWS 2009 - Croatia

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Brenk, Daniel ^a   Essel, Jochen ^a   Heidrich, Juergen ^a   Weigel, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ADC; Mixed signal; RFID; Sensor; Ultra low power

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTERS; BUILDING BLOCKES; DATA CONVERTER; DESIGN TECHNIQUE; GENERIC INTERFACES; GENERIC SENSOR INTERFACES; LOW POWER; LOW POWER APPLICATION; MIXED SIGNAL; ON CURRENTS; PASSIVE UHF RFID; RF-ID TAGS; RFID SENSORS; SENSOR DATA; SUPPLY VOLTAGES; UHF RFID;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; MICROWAVES; MULTICARRIER MODULATION; RADIO NAVIGATION;

SENSORS;

EID: 73649148737     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IMWS2.2009.5307885     Document Type: Conference Paper

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