A 5.58nW 32.768kHz DLL-assisted XO for real-time clocks in wireless sensing applications

Digest of Technical Papers - IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference

Volumn 55, Issue , 2012, Pages 366-367

  Yoon, Dongmin ^a   Sylvester, Dennis ^a   Blaauw, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY REFERENCE; HIGH-POWER; NODE ENERGY; REAL TIME CLOCK; ULTRA-LOW POWER; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS MICROSYSTEM; WIRELESS SENSING;

CLOCKS; MICROSYSTEMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

SENSOR NODES;

EID: 84860682164     PISSN: 01936530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC.2012.6177043     Document Type: Conference Paper

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