A -5 dBm 400MHz OOK Transmitter for Wireless Medical Application

Authors

  • Mousa Yousefi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Abstract

A 400 MHz high efficiency transmitter for
wireless medical application is presented in this paper.
Transmitter architecture with high-energy efficiencies is
proposed to achieve high data rate with low power
consumption. In the on-off keying transmitters, the oscillator
and power amplifier are turned off when the transmitter
sends 0 data. The proposed class-e power amplifier has high
efficiency for low level output power. The proposed on-off
keying transmitter consumes 1.52 mw at -5 dBm output by 40
Mbps data rate and energy consumption 38 pJ/bit. The
proposed transmitter has been designed in 0.18µm CMOS
technology.

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Published

2014-06-30

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Vol. 60 No. 2 (2014)

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Signals, Circuits, Systems

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