A 5.2/5.8 GHz Dual Band On-Off Keying Transmitter Design for Bio-Signal Transmission
Author:
Wu Chang-Hsi1, You Hong-Cheng1, Huang Shun-Zhao1
Affiliation:
1. Department of Electronic Engineering , Lunghwa University of Science and Technology , 333 Taoyuan, 300 Wan-Shou Rd. Sec.1 , Kueishan , Tel: 02-82093211 ext: 5623, Fax: 02-82095165 , Taiwan, R.O.C
Abstract
Abstract
An architecture of 5.2/5.8-GHz dual-band on-off keying (DBOOK) modulated transmitter is designed in a 0.18-μm CMOS technology. The proposed DBOOK transmitter is used in the biosignal transmission system with high power efficiency and small area. To reduce power consumption and enhance output swing, two pairs of center-tapped transformers are used as both LC tank and source grounding choke for the designed voltage controlled oscillator (VCO). Switching capacitances are used to achieve dual band operations, and a complemented power combiner is used to merge the differential output power of VCO to a single-ended output. Besides, the linearizer circuits are used in the proposed power amplifier with wideband output matching to improve the linearity both at 5.2/5.8-GHz bands. The designed DBOOK transmitter is implemented by dividing it into two chips. One chip implements the dual-band switching VCO and power combiner, and the other chip implements a linear power amplifier including dual-band operation. The first chip drives an output power of 2.2mW with consuming power of 5.13 mW from 1.1 V supply voltage. With the chip size including pad of 0.61 × 0.91 m2, the measured data rate and transmission efficiency attained are 100 Mb/s and 51 pJ/bit, respectively. The second chip, for power enhanced mode, exhibits P1 dB of −9 dBm, IIP3 of 1 dBm, the output power 1 dB compression point of 12.42 dBm, OIP3 of about 21 dBm, maximum output power of 17.02/16.18 dBm, and power added efficiency of 17.13/16.95% for 5.2/ 5.8 GHz. The chip size including pads is 0:693 × 1:084mm2.
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy,General Materials Science,General Chemistry
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