A CMOS low-power transceiver with reconfigurable antenna interface for medical implant applications

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1369-1378

  Copani, Tino ^a   Min, Seungkee ^a   Shashidharan, Sridhar ^b   Chakraborty, Sudipto ^c   Stevens, Mark ^a   Kiaei, Sayfe ^a   Bakkaloglu, Bertan ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b Arasan Chip Systems Inc   (United States)

^c TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

Author keywords

All digital fractional N type I phased locked loop (PLL); injection locking; low power; medical implants; reconfigurable RF; super regenerative receiver (RX)

Indexed keywords

INJECTION LOCKING; LOW POWER; MEDICAL IMPLANTS; PHASED-LOCKED LOOPS; RE-CONFIGURABLE; SUPER-REGENERATIVE RECEIVER;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); POWER AMPLIFIERS; TRANSCEIVERS; TRANSMITTERS; WAKES;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 79955948477     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2011.2116036     Document Type: Conference Paper

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