A low-power continuously-calibrated clock recovery circuit for UHF RFID EPC class-1 generation-2 transponders

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 587-599

  Chan, Chi Fat ^a   Pun, Kong Pang ^b   Leung, Ka Nang ^b   Guo, Jianping ^b   Leung, Lai Kan Lincoln ^c   Choy, Chiu Sing ^b  

^a HONG KONG APPLIED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Clock recovery; Digital frequency locked loop; Passive RFID transponder

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE AREA; CLOCK RECOVERY; CLOCK RECOVERY CIRCUITS; FREQUENCY ACCURACY; FREQUENCY DEVIATION; FREQUENCY-LOCKED-LOOP; LOW POWER; OUTPUT FREQUENCY; PASSIVE RFID; RE-CONFIGURABLE; STANDARD CMOS TECHNOLOGY; SUPPLY VOLTAGES; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; TIMING INFORMATION; UHF RFID;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC CLOCKS; RECOVERY; STANDARDS; TRANSPONDERS;

TIMING CIRCUITS;

EID: 77649166471     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2010.2040655     Document Type: Article

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