0.56 V, -20 dBm RF-powered, multi-node wireless body area network system-on-a-chip with harvesting-efficiency tracking loop

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1345-1355

  Xia, Lingli ^a   Cheng, Jiao ^a   Glover, Neil E ^a   Chiang, Patrick ^a,b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Clock synchronization; efficiency tracking; injection locking; multi node; RF energy harvesting

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; BANDPASS FILTERS; BASE STATIONS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; EFFICIENCY; ENERGY HARVESTING; MECHANICAL CLOCKS; SENSOR NODES; SENSORS; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION; INJECTION LOCKED FREQUENCY DIVIDER(ILFD); INJECTION-LOCKING; MULTI-NODE; RF ENERGY HARVESTING; TEMPERATURE MONITORING; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK; WIRELESS DATA TRANSFER;

SYSTEM-ON-CHIP;

EID: 84902112784     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2014.2305074     Document Type: Article

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