A low-power multi-standard frontend for wireless sensor networks

Proceedings of IEEE Sensors

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1124-1128

  Essel, J ^a   Brenk, D ^a   Heidrich, J ^a   Weigel, R ^a   Hofer, G ^b   Holweg, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA AG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG FRONT-END; AUXILIARY CIRCUITS; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; DC POWER; DC POWER CONSUMPTION; DIGITAL LOGIC; INPUT POWER; INTEGRATED SENSORS; LOCAL OSCILLATORS; LOW POWER; MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY; MULTI-STANDARD; OUTPUT POWER; RFID TRANSPONDERS; SENSOR TAG; UHF RFID READER;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; DIGITAL CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SENSORS; STANDARDS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 79951931764     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2010.5690818     Document Type: Conference Paper

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