Abstract
An 800-MHz OOK transmitter for short-range Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications is presented in this letter. The OOK transmitter utilizes a microelectromechanical system (MEMS)-based RF oscillator for carrier frequency generation, leading to a hardware- and power-efficient architecture. The transmitter is implemented in a 180-nm CMOS process and delivers −12.4-dBm output power. The power consumption of the MEMS oscillator is only 0.24-mW with 126.3-dBc/Hz phase noise at 100-kHz offset and a figure-of-merit (FoM) of 210.5 dB due to the optimized high- <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$Q$ </tex-math></inline-formula> aluminum nitride (AlN) piezoelectric MEMS resonator. The transmitter can provide a 120-Mb/s data rate of OOK modulation with an energy efficiency of 5 pJ/bit by directly switching ON/OFF the power amplifier (PA). The 175-ns startup time of the MEMS-based oscillator can support very heavy duty-cycle transmitter operation, leading to ultralow average power consumption of 50 nW.
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