A 19-μW Blocker-Tolerant Wake-Up Receiver with -90-dBm Energy-Enhanced Sensitivity

  • Heyu Ren*
  • , Dawei Ye
  • , Binbin Chen
  • , Wenjun Gong
  • , Xu Jin
  • , Rongjin Xu
  • , Liangjian Lyu
  • , Ling Xu
  • , C. J.Richard Shi
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A 915-MHz energy-enhanced wake-up receiver (EE WuRx) is proposed for wireless energy-harvesting (WEH) systems based on a modified legacy device. With the presented frequency-hopping two-tone modulation (FH TTM), the receiver converts the in-band harvesting energy (HE) from the legacy device into the data power with reduced constraint to the HE frequency. Fabricated in a 65-nm CMOS process, the proposed wake-up receiver (WuRx) achieves a -90-dBm EE sensitivity when receiving a continue-wave (CW) energy of -25 dBm and gives a sensitivity improvement of 26.4 dB compared with the case without HE, while consuming $19~\mu \text{W}$ at a 5-kb/s data rate. Upon the -90-dBm EE sensitivity, the WuRx performs 46.5- and 22-dB tolerances to a 100-kb/s amplitude-modulated (AM) blocker and an 8-MS/s quadrature-AM blocker, respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4377-4392
Number of pages16
JournalIEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
Volume71
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Oct 2023

Keywords

  • Blocker tolerance
  • energy-enhanced (EE) sensitivity
  • frequency-hopping (FH)
  • ultralow power (ULP)
  • wake-up receiver (WuRx)

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