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Ultra-Low-Power Short-Range Radios

  • Ultra-low-power RFIC design concepts and techniques over a wide variety of applications
  • Channel modeling for both wireless and body-coupled communication in body-area networks
  • Narrowband, wideband and human-body channel RF front-ends
  • Ultra-low-power timers and network synchronization schemes
  • Wireless power transfer and energy harvesting to support the energy needs of the underlying radio systems
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Integrated Circuits and Systems (ICIR)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Introduction to Ultra Low Power Transceiver Design

    • Dhongue Lee, Patrick P. Mercier
    Pages 1-23
  3. Channel Modeling for Wireless Body Area Networks

    • David B. Smith, Leif W. Hanlen
    Pages 25-55
  4. Circuit Techniques for Ultra-Low Power Radios

    • Jagdish Pandey, Brian Otis
    Pages 57-95
  5. Architectures for Ultra-Low-Power Multi-Channel Resonator-Based Wireless Transceivers

    • Phillip M. Nadeau, Arun Paidimarri, Patrick P. Mercier, Anantha P. Chandrakasan
    Pages 97-135
  6. Ultra-Low Power Wake-Up Radios

    • Nathan E. Roberts, David D. Wentzloff
    Pages 137-162
  7. Commercially Viable Ultra-Low Power Wireless

    • Gangadhar Burra, Srinath Hosur, Subhashish Mukherjee, Ashish Lachhwani, Sankar Debnath
    Pages 163-208
  8. Pulsed Ultra-Wideband Transceivers

    • Patrick P. Mercier, Denis C. Daly, Fred S. Lee, David D. Wentzloff, Anantha P. Chandrakasan
    Pages 233-280
  9. Human Body Communication Transceiver for Energy Efficient BAN

    • Hyungwoo Lee, Seong-Jun Song, Namjun Cho, Joonsung Bae, Hoi-Jun Yoo
    Pages 281-311
  10. Centimeter-Range Inductive Radios

    • Mehdi Kiani, Maysam Ghovanloo
    Pages 313-341
  11. Near-Field Wireless Power Transfer

    • Patrick P. Mercier, Anantha P. Chandrakasan
    Pages 343-375
  12. Energy Harvesting Opportunities for Low-Power Radios

    • Saurav Bandyopadhyay, Yogesh K. Ramadass
    Pages 377-394

About this book

This book explores the design of ultra-low-power radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs), with communication distances ranging from a few centimeters to a few meters. The authors describe leading-edge techniques to achieve ultra-low-power communication over short-range links. Many different applications are covered, ranging from body-area networks to transcutaneous implant communications and smart-appliance sensor networks. Various design techniques are explained to facilitate each of these applications.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, USA

    Patrick P. Mercier

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

    Anantha P. Chandrakasan

About the editors

Patrick P. Mercier is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include the design of energy-efficient microsystems, focusing on the design of RF circuits, power converters and sensor interfaces for mobile electronics and biomedical applications. Prior to joining UCSD, he completed his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a doctoral thesis on the topic of communication and energy-delivery architectures for personal medical devices. Prof. Mercier has received numerous awards include the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Jack Kilby Award for Outstanding Student Paper, the Hellman Foundation Award, a Graduate Teaching Award, an Intel Ph.D. Fellowship, a Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC) Julie Payette and Post Graduate fellowships, amongst others. He has over 50 publications and invited presentations at venues such as ISSCC, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, and Nature Biotechnology. Prof. Mercier currently serves as the Associate Director of the Center for Wearable Sensors at UCSD and as an Associated Editor for the IEEE Journal of Biomedical Circuits and Systems.

Anantha P. Chandrakasan is the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. He is the Head of the MIT EECS Department. He has received several awards including the 2009 Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) University Researcher Award and the 2013 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits. His research interests include micro-power digital and mixed-signal integrated circuit design, wireless microsensor system design, portable multimedia devices, energy efficient radios and emerging technologies. He has served as the Conference Chair for the IEEE International

Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) since 2010.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ultra-Low-Power Short-Range Radios

  • Editors: Patrick P. Mercier, Anantha P. Chandrakasan

  • Series Title: Integrated Circuits and Systems

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14714-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-14713-0Published: 04 August 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35198-8Published: 15 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-14714-7Published: 21 July 2015

  • Series ISSN: 1558-9412

  • Series E-ISSN: 1558-9420

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 394

  • Number of Illustrations: 168 b/w illustrations, 139 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Circuits and Systems, Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Electronic Circuits and Devices

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Softcover Book USD 149.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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