Ultra-Low Power Transmitter Test Results

Abstract

There is a growing need in the armed forces for small, low-profile, electronic devices that can easily be concealed and/or worn in clothing. These tiny devices can be worn by warfighters to monitor their health status as well as their location and any other sensor data that is desired. The data can be sent over a wireless link to a mobile device. Conventional transmitter have high power consumption for this application. In this reprot, we test two versions of ultra-low power binary phase-shift keying (BPSK) transmitters, which were designed and fabricated in an IBM 65-nm process. These transmitters employ injection-locking frequency multiplication for near-field (~ 2-m) communication. The power consumption of the proposed transmitters ranges from 90 to 125 W with the target data rate of 120 kbps.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2014
Accession Number
ADA616407

Entities

People

  • Aaron Clawson
  • Albert Ryu
  • Gert Cauwenberghs
  • Henry Ngo
  • Jason Rowland
  • Sam Chieh
  • Sohmyung Ha

Organizations

  • Naval Information Warfare Systems Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplifiers
  • Crystal Oscillators
  • Data Rate
  • Data Transmission
  • Diagrams
  • Energy Consumption
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Shift
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Measurement
  • Mobile Devices
  • Modulation
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Phase Shift
  • Power Amplifiers
  • Simulations
  • Transmitters

Readers

  • Electronics Engineering
  • Nanoscale Plasmonic Nanotechnology
  • Radio communications and signal processing.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems