A 5.5-dBm, 31.9% Efficiency 915-MHz Transmitter Employing Frequency Tripler and 207-μW Synthesizer

Kyung Sik Choi; Keun Mok Kim; Su Bin Kim; Byeong Hun Yun; Jinho Ko; Jusung Kim; Sang Gug Lee

doi:10.1109/LMWC.2019.2953208

A 5.5-dBm, 31.9% Efficiency 915-MHz Transmitter Employing Frequency Tripler and 207-μW Synthesizer

Kyung Sik Choi
, Keun Mok Kim
, Su Bin Kim
, Byeong Hun Yun
, Jinho Ko
, Jusung Kim
, Sang Gug Lee

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Abstract

A 915-MHz binary frequency-shift keying (BFSK) transmitter is proposed in this letter. The proposed transmitter architecture allows relaxing the frequency-tuning requirement of the conventional Internet of Things transceiver by the frequency-tripling signal-path topology. The tuning-range requirement is significantly improved down to 4% with the proposed signaling scheme, and this results in the ultralow-power synthesizer implementation. The proposed frequency tripler provides good spur rejection performance, and the adoption of a class-D switching power amplifier (PA) further improves the efficiency of the BFSK transmitter. Implemented in a 55-nm CMOS technology, the proposed transmitter achieves the output power of 5.5 dBm and 31.9% efficiency with only 207 μW of power consumption from the synthesizer.

Original language	English
Article number	8928561
Pages (from-to)	90-93
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters
Volume	30
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWC.2019.2953208
State	Published - Jan 2020

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Keywords

Binary frequency-shift keying (BFSK)
CMOS
frequency tripler
transmitter
ultralow-power (ULP)

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A 5.5-dBm, 31.9% Efficiency 915-MHz Transmitter Employing Frequency Tripler and 207-μW Synthesizer

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