A low power fully CMOS integrated RF transceiver IC for wireless sensor networks

  • Authors:

  • Hae-Moon Seo;YeonKug Moon;Yong-Kuk Park;Dongsu Kim;Dong-Sun Kim;Youn-Sung Lee;Kwang-Ho Won;Seong-Dong Kim;Pyung Choi

  • Affiliations:

  • Ubiquitous Computing Center and Electronic Material and Packaging Research Center, Korea Electronics Technology Institute, Bundang, Sungnam-si, Korea and Department of Electrical Engineering, Kyun ...;Ubiquitous Computing Center and Electronic Material and Packaging Research Center, Korea Electronics Technology Institute, Bundang, Sungnam-si, Korea;Ubiquitous Computing Center and Electronic Material and Packaging Research Center, Korea Electronics Technology Institute, Bundang, Sungnam-si, Korea;Ubiquitous Computing Center and Electronic Material and Packaging Research Center, Korea Electronics Technology Institute, Bundang, Sungnam-si, Korea;Ubiquitous Computing Center and Electronic Material and Packaging Research Center, Korea Electronics Technology Institute, Bundang, Sungnam-si, Korea;Ubiquitous Computing Center and Electronic Material and Packaging Research Center, Korea Electronics Technology Institute, Bundang, Sungnam-si, Korea;Ubiquitous Computing Center and Electronic Material and Packaging Research Center, Korea Electronics Technology Institute, Bundang, Sungnam-si, Korea;Ubiquitous Computing Center and Electronic Material and Packaging Research Center, Korea Electronics Technology Institute, Bundang, Sungnam-si, Korea;Department of Electrical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A fully CMOS integrated RF transceiver for ubiquitous sensor networks in sub-gigahertz industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM)-band applications is implemented and measured. The integrated circuit is fabricated in 0.18-µm CMOS technology and packaged in leadless plastic chip carrier (LPCC) package. The fully monolithic transceiver consists of a receiver, a transmitter, and an RF synthesizer with on-chip voltage-controlled oscillator. The chip fully complies with the IEEE 802.15.4 wireless personal area network in sub-gigahertz mode. The cascaded noise figure of the overall receiver is 9.5 dB and the overall transmitter achieves less than 6.3% error vector magnitude for 40 kb/s mode. The chip uses 1.8-V power supply and the power consumption is 25 mW for reception mode and 29 mW for transmission mode.