An ultralow-power mixed-signal back end for passive sensor UHF RFID transponders

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1310-1322

  Rodríguez Rodríguez, José A ^a   Delgado Restituto, Manuel ^a   Masuch, Jens ^a   Rodríguez Pérez, Alberto ^a   Alarcón, Eduard ^b   Rodríguez Vázquez, Ángel ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO DE MICROELECTRÓNICA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Baseband processing; Electronic Product Code (EPC) Class 1 Generation 2 (Gen2) protocol; ISO 18000 6C; low power design; passive transponder; radio frequency (RF) identification (RFID); sensor interface; successive approximation register (SAR) analog to digital converter (ADC) (SAR ADC)

Indexed keywords

BASE-BAND PROCESSING; ELECTRONIC PRODUCT CODES; ISO 18000-6C; LOW-POWER DESIGN; PASSIVE TRANSPONDER; RADIO FREQUENCIES; SENSOR INTERFACE; SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATION REGISTER ANALOGTO-DIGITAL CONVERTERS (ADC);

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMMUNICATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; FREQUENCY CONVERTERS; INVENTORY CONTROL; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; SENSORS; TRANSPONDERS; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSORS;

EID: 80054825384     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2011.2159695     Document Type: Article

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