PROJECT TITLE :

A 10 mW Bluetooth Low-Energy Transceiver With On-Chip Matching

ABSTRACT:

A mass-produced Bluetooth Low-Energy transceiver is presented in classic double frequency VCO design fabricated in TSMC fifty five nm CMOS. The radio half occupies a pair of.9 mm $^2$ whereas the whole SoC occupies 5.nine mm$^2$ . The transceiver consumes eleven mW when receiving at $-$ninety four dBm and ten mW when transmitting at zero dBm. This can be roughly a issue two lower than benchmark mass-created designs. The power consumption is above recently published experimental sliding-IF styles, however it does not suffer from their inherent susceptibility to blocking and pulling. Straightforward application is enabled by a absolutely integrated single-ended 50 $Omega $ RFIO and combined Buck- and Boost-mode DC-DC converter.