A sub-10 nJ/b +1.9-dBm output power FSK transmitter for body area network applications

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1413-1423

  Masuch, Jens ^a   Delgado Restituto, Manuel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE MICROELECTRÓNICA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bluetooth low energy (BLE); class E power amplifier (PA); frequency shift keying (FSK) modulator; frequency synthesizer; low power radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) design; transformer

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA IMPEDANCE; BODY AREA NETWORK; CARRIER FREQUENCY; CLASS E; CLASS-E POWER AMPLIFIERS; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; DIRECTLY MODULATED; FRACTIONAL-N PHASE-LOCKED LOOPS; FREQUENCY DEVIATION; LOAD IMPEDANCE; LOW ENERGIES; LOW POWER; MODULATION SCHEMES; OUTPUT POWER; OUTPUT STAGES; PMOS TRANSISTORS; RADIO FREQUENCY INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; STARTUP TIME; STEP UP TRANSFORMERS; SUPPLY VOLTAGE VARIATION; TOTAL POWER; TRANSFORMER;

ANTENNAS; BLUETOOTH; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS; OSCILLISTORS; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; TRANSMITTERS; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING;

EID: 84860680539     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2012.2188724     Document Type: Conference Paper

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