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Title | ||
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A 0.48 mW fully integrated MICS band VCO in SiGe BiCMOS technology for medical implant communication |
Abstract | ||
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This paper presents the design of a low power VCO, that is a part of a fully integrated, directly modulated, VCO-only transmitter in MICS band (402-405 MHz). The differential LC-tank VCO is designed for a MSK transmitter supporting up to 200 kbps data rate for the application in a glucose sensor implant. The chip is fabricated in the CMOS section of IHPs 0.13 μm SiGe BiCMOS process and has an active area of 0.86 mm
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. The measured VCO has shown -110 dBc/Hz phase noise at 200 kHz offset from the carrier and a tuning range of 22.6 MHz (5.6 %), while consuming 0.55 mA from a 0.87 V supply (0.48 mW). The phase noise performance, size and power consumption of the measured VCO satisfy the requirements of implantable electronics. This VCO is therefore an important block in building a more complex, multi-channel MICS band transmitter. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2018 | 10.1109/RWS.2018.8304929 | 2018 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS) |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
CMOS integrated circuits,SiGe,voltage-controlled oscillators,phase noise,biomedical communication,low power electronics,implants | Transmitter,Phase noise,Chip,Voltage-controlled oscillator,CMOS,Electronics,dBc,Electrical engineering,Materials science,Low-power electronics | Conference |
ISSN | ISBN | Citations |
2164-2958 | 978-1-5386-0711-4 | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 0 | 5 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miljana Nenadovic | 1 | 0 | 0.68 |
| N. Fiebig | 2 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Gunter Fischer | 3 | 5 | 4.80 |
| Dietmar Kissinger | 4 | 40 | 18.10 |
| Jan Wessel | 5 | 0 | 2.37 |