{"title":"Ultra low power detection circuits in 130nm CMOS for a wireless UWB localization system","authors":"C. D. Roover, M. Steyaert","doi":"10.1109/ESSCIRC.2009.5325949","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents two detection circuits with an ultra low power consumption in the nW-range. A voltage detection circuit is designed and measured of which the output switches if the supply voltage reaches 1V. It consumes an average current of merely 3nA. Also a power dip detection circuit is designed and measured which detects if an RF-signal is present at the input. The minimal needed input power is −24.5dBm, and it operates from a supply voltage of 0.5V up to 1V and consumes only 5nW to 65nW respectively when active. It operates with a carrier frequency from 40MHz up to 900MHz. It can serve as an OOK-demodulator for bitrates up to 6.67kbps. The die area of both circuits combined, excluding buffers and including decoupling capacitors, is 310µm×550µm.","PeriodicalId":258889,"journal":{"name":"2009 Proceedings of ESSCIRC","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2009-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2009 Proceedings of ESSCIRC","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSCIRC.2009.5325949","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper presents two detection circuits with an ultra low power consumption in the nW-range. A voltage detection circuit is designed and measured of which the output switches if the supply voltage reaches 1V. It consumes an average current of merely 3nA. Also a power dip detection circuit is designed and measured which detects if an RF-signal is present at the input. The minimal needed input power is −24.5dBm, and it operates from a supply voltage of 0.5V up to 1V and consumes only 5nW to 65nW respectively when active. It operates with a carrier frequency from 40MHz up to 900MHz. It can serve as an OOK-demodulator for bitrates up to 6.67kbps. The die area of both circuits combined, excluding buffers and including decoupling capacitors, is 310µm×550µm.