GHz RF Transceiver Research Articles

A 40-nm Low-Power WiFi SoC With Clock Gating and Power Management Strategy

ABSTRACT With the emerging of Internet of Things (IoT) industry, applications like smart power plugs, security ID tags, home automation and wearable electronic devices all make the demand for low-power WiFi chips impendency. In this paper, a low-power 2.4 GHz 802.11b/g/n WiFi system-on-chip (SoC) is designed and implemented with 40-nm CMOS process, with area of 8.1 mm2. The low-power SoC integrates 32-bit microcontroller, 802.11b/g/n WiFi baseband, 2.4 GHz RF transceiver, ample memory space, ADC, 6-channel PWM, flexible I/O interfaces, multi-stage power management module, etc.. It has several sleep modes with extremely low leakage current as 0.8 mA/12 µA in light/deep sleep mode and 0.4 µA in Shutdown mode to reduce the power consumption. High performance is demonstrated, including Pout (-28 dB/-30 dB EVM) of 20.1 dBm/19.1 dBm and RX sensitivity of -76 dBm/-74 dBm meanwhile the total current of 148.5 mA/146.5 mA (TX) for 54 Mbps OFDM/HT20 MCS7.

Realization of RFID-Based DAS Using an RF Transceiver and Huffman Coding

ABSTRACT This paper presents the approach of the design of a programmable radio frequency identification (RFID) reader and tag using a 2.4 GHz RF transceiver and microcontroller and data acquisition system. It can be substitute of conventional RFID tag and reader. Temperature sensor values are acquired by the tag and the following EPC RFID global communication protocol sensor values are sent to the reader at remote place after authentication communication is established by microcontroller programming. Using the Huffman coding technique with the help of the MATLAB software, a large volume of data is stored and compressed efficiently without any losses.

Design of 60GHz RF transceiver in CMOS: Challenges and recent advances

With more than 40 years Moore scaling, the speed of CMOS transistors is around 100 GHz. Such fact makes it possible to realize mm-wave circuits in CMOS. However, with the target of achieving broadband and power-efficient operation, 60 GHz CMOS RF transceiver faces severe challenges. After reviewing the technology issues, regarding the 60 GHz applications, this paper discusses design challenges both from the system and the building block levels, and also presents some simulated or measured circuits results.

3축 가속도 센서 기반의 무선 진동 측정 시스템

In this study, a compact wireless vibration measurement system was developed using a 3-axial accelerometer in order to evaluate the vibration stimulation system. A low power microprocessor chip integrated with 2.4 GHz RF transceiver was used for the wireless data communication. To evaluate the system, the frequencies and accelerations from the vibration stimulation system were measured using an LVDT sensor and a vibration measurement system. The average frequency difference by the measurement system was less than 0.1 Hz, and the standard deviation of frequencies estimated by the LVDT sensor and the accelerometer was below 0.08 Hz. The developed system was applied to access a vibration stimulation system for the future study. The average acceleration difference of the central and peripheral point of the stimulation system was less than 0.0005 g(1 g=9.8 <TEX>$m/s^2$</TEX>), and the standard deviation of the acceleration was below 0.004 g, which shows the usefulness of the wireless vibration measurement system.

주기 및 비주기 태스크의 효율적인 관리를 위한 실시간 센서 노드 플랫폼의 설계

본 논문에서는 주기 및 비주기 태스크의 효율적인 관리를 제공하는 실시간 센서 노드 플랫폼을 설계하고 구현하였다. 기존 센서 노드의 소프트웨어 플랫폼은 제한된 센서 노드의 자원을 효율적으로 사용하기 위하여 메모리 및 전력 소비량의 최소화에만 초점을 두었기 때문에 태스크의 실시간성과 빠른 평균 응답시간을 보장하는 실시간 센서 노드의 소프트웨어 플랫폼에는 적합하지 않다. 이에 본 논문에서는 센서 노드의 소프트웨어 플랫폼으로 많이 사용되고 있는 TinyOS 기반에서 태스크의 실시간성과 빠른 평균 응답시간을 보장할 수 있는 기법과 한계를 분석하였으며, 모든 주기 태스크가 마감시한 내에 실행이 완료되는 것을 보장하고 비주기 태스크의 응답시간을 최소화하는 실시간 센서 노드 플랫폼을 제안하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 플랫폼은 Atmel사의 초경량 8비트 마이크로프로세서인 Atmega128L이 탑재된 센서 보드에서 구현되었다. 구현된 실시간 센서 플랫폼의 성능을 분석한 결과, 모든 주기 태스크의 마감시한 보장을 제공함과 동시에 향상된 비주기 태스크의 평균 응답시간과 낮은 시스템의 평균 처리기 이용률을 확인할 수 있었다. In this paper, we propose a real-time sensor node platform that efficiently manages periodic and aperiodic tasks. Since existing sensor node platforms available in literature focus on minimizing the usage of memory and power consumptions, they are not capable of supporting the management of tasks that need their real-time execution and fast average response time. We first analyze how to structure periodic or aperiodic task decomposition in the TinyOS-based sensor node platform as regard to guaranteeing the deadlines of ail the periodic tasks and aiming to providing aperiodic tasks with average good response time. Then we present the application and efficiency of the proposed real-time sensor node platform in the sensor node equipped with a low-power 8-bit microcontroller, an IEEE802.15.4 compliant 2.4GHz RF transceiver, and several sensors. Extensive experiments show that our sensor node platform yields efficient performance in terms of three significant, objective goals: deadline miss ratio of periodic tasks, average response time of aperiodic tasks, and processor utilization of periodic and aperiodic tasks.