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An Energy Efficient OOK Transceiver for Wireless Sensor Networks Denis C. Daly and Anantha P. Chandrakasan

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

50 Vassar St. Room 38-107 Cambridge, MA, USA 02139 RFIC - San Francisco June 11-13, 2006

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Outline • System overview • Receiver front end optimization • Circuit implementation • Measurement results

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Transceivers for Sensor Networks • Sensor network specifications: – Closely spaced nodes: ~10 meters apart – Average power: 10 µW to a few mW – Data rate: <10 kbps

• Both power and energy efficiency critical • Transceiver must be duty cycled Goal: To design a custom, energy-efficient wireless transceiver for wireless sensor networks

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Architecture

• On-off keying (OOK) modulation • 1 Mbps at 916.5 MHz carrier RFIC - San Francisco June 11-13, 2006

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Architecture Advantages

Disadvantages

• Fast RX startup time

• Higher SNR required

• No oscillator required for receiver

• Single channel is susceptible to interferers

• Receiver circuit power scales with gain • No PLL required for transmitter

• Requires offchip SAW components • Significant RF gain is required in receiver

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Scalable Receiver

RF and baseband gain scalable to achieve optimum energy efficiency RFIC - San Francisco June 11-13, 2006

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RF Gain – Untuned vs. Tuned • What is the most energy efficient way to generate 45dB of RF gain? Untuned RF gain

Tuned RF gain

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Untuned RF Amplifier Resistors sized for noise constraints Input low frequency noise filtered

Gain No significant load inductors or capacitors

Input ac coupling capacitor at source allows for minimal gain reduction due to parasitics RFIC - San Francisco June 11-13, 2006

Freq.

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RF Gain - Optimization Efficiency Metric: log(Gain) Power

Efficiency of untuned gain

Efficiency of tuned gain

Comparable efficiency to tuned gain

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RF Front End Architecture

Early stages supplied additional current to meet noiseJune constraints RFIC - San Francisco 11-13, 2006

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Envelope Detector • Envelope detector is a differential pair, with the output at the source terminal • There are multiple inputs, each corresponding to a different RF gain setting

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Baseband Amplifier and ADC • 3-stage baseband amplifier • ADC is 8 MSPS, 3-bit flash converter High-impedance MOS diode based resistors

Open-loop amplifiers with passive offset compensation for low- San power operation RFIC Francisco June 11-13, 2006

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Transmitter • Mixer integrated with power amplifier • Scalable Pout from -11.4 dBm to -2.2 dBm • Maximum power efficiency of 6.9%

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Die Photo 1.3mm by 1.4mm Active Area: 0.27mm2

LNA

RF untuned gain RX Frontend

250µm Current Envelope Sources Detector

250µm

TX

Shift RX BB Amplifier Register and ADC

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Measured Results Specifications Data Rate

1 Mbps

Center Frequency

916.5 MHz

Technology

0.18µm CMOS

Die Area

1.3mm by 1.4mm

Receiver (5 gain settings) Power consumption (mW)

2.6

2.4

1.7

1.2

0.5

Sensitivity at 10-3 BER (dBm)

-65

-62

-58

-49

-37

Startup time

2.5µs

Transmitter (7 power settings) 4.8

Power consumption (mW)

3.8

Output Power (dBm)

-11.4 -7.2

Startup time

<60µs

5.8

6.7

7.6

8.3

9.1

-4.9

-3.6

-2.9

-2.4

-2.2

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Receiver Results Rectifier output versus RF input power

BER versus RF input power

• BER limited by RF noise, not gain at small input power levels RFIC - San Francisco June 11-13, 2006

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Transmitter Results Transient Response 250mV

-250mV

500ns

100ns/div

• Data is Manchester encoded to remove dc content RFIC - San Francisco June 11-13, 2006

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Energy Per Bit Ratio • For 50 bit packet, startup energy overhead: – RX overhead of 5%, TX overhead of 25% Receiver

Transmitter

This work

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Summary • An energy-efficient, highly scalable transceiver has been designed for sensor networks • It achieves a minimum energy per bit ratio of: 0.5 nJ/bit for the RX and 3.8 nJ/bit for the TX • The architecture lends itself well to process scaling

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Acknowledgements • DARPA PAC/C • National Semiconductor for chip fabrication • NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship

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