A 4.4mW-TX, 3.6 mW-RX Fully Integrated Bluetooth Low Energy Transceiver for IoT Applications

  • Masoud Babaie
  • Sandro Binsfeld Ferreira
  • Feng-Wei Kuo
  • Robert Bogdan Staszewski
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Abstract

We present an ultra-low-power Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) transceiver for Internet of things (IoT) optimized for 28-nm CMOS. A transmitter (TX) employs an all-digital phase-locked loop (ADPLL) with switched current source digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) and class-E/F2 power amplifier. The proposed oscillator combines the benefits of low-supply voltage operation of conventional NMOS cross-coupled oscillators with high current efficiency of the complementary push-pull oscillators. It also reduces 1/f noise and supply pushing, thus allowing the ADPLL, after settling, to reduce its sampling rate or shut it off entirely during a direct DCO modulation. The switching power amplifier operates in class-E/F2 to maximally enhance its efficiency at low output power. The receiver (RX) operates in discrete time (DT) at high sampling rate ( ∼ 10 GSample/sec) with an intermediate frequency (IF) placed beyond 1/f noise corner of MOS devices. Multistage multi-rate charge-sharing (CS) band-pass filters (BPF) are placed to achieve high out-of-band linearity, low noise, and low power consumption. Furthermore, an integrated on-chip matching network serves both PA and LNTA, thus allowing a one-pin direct antenna connection with no extra band selection filters. The transceiver consumes 2.75 mW in RX and 3.7 mW in TX when delivering 0 dBm in BLE.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Masoud Babaie
    • 1
  • Sandro Binsfeld Ferreira
    • 2
  • Feng-Wei Kuo
    • 3
  • Robert Bogdan Staszewski
    • 1
    • 4
  1. 1.Delft University of TechnologyDelftThe Netherlands
  2. 2.Federal University of Rio Grande Do Sul (UFRGS)Porto AlegreBrazil
  3. 3.Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)HsinchuTaiwan
  4. 4.University College Dublin (UCD)DublinIreland

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