Overview
- Guides readers through the design of ultra low power transceivers for body area networks, from architecture to circuit-level implementation
- Describes 4 key strategies for ultra-low power transceiver design and specific, innovative techniques for circuit-level design
- Enables readers to design transceivers for body area networks with a total TX efficiency of 27% and an RX power consumption close to 1mW
- Includes a review of the state-of-the-art in low-power transceivers in the GHz frequency range
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Analog Circuits and Signal Processing (ACSP)
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About this book
Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are expected to promote new applications for the ambulatory health monitoring of chronic patients and elderly population, aiming to improve their quality of life and independence. These networks are composed by wireless sensor nodes (WSNs) used for measuring physiological variables (e.g., glucose level in blood or body temperature) or controlling therapeutic devices (e.g., implanted insulin pumps). These nodes should exhibit a high degree of energy autonomy in order to extend their battery lifetime or even make the node supply to rely on harvesting techniques. Typically, the power budget of WSNs is dominated by the wireless link and, hence, many efforts have been directed during the last years toward the implementation of power efficient transceivers.
Because of the short range (typically no more than a few meters) and low data rate (typically in between 10 kb/s and 1 Mb/s), simple communication protocols can be employed. One of these protocols, specifically tailored for WBAN applications, is the Bluetooth low energy (BLE) standard.
This book describes the challenges and solutions for the design of ultra-low power transceivers for WBANs applications and presents the implementation details of a BLE transceiver prototype. Coverage includes not only the main concepts and architectures for achieving low power consumption, but also the details of the circuit design and its implementation in a standard CMOS technology.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ultra Low Power Transceiver for Wireless Body Area Networks
Authors: Jens Masuch, Manuel Delgado-Restituto
Series Title: Analog Circuits and Signal Processing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00098-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-00097-8Published: 22 May 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-03367-9Published: 20 June 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-00098-5Published: 28 March 2013
Series ISSN: 1872-082X
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1854
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 122
Topics: Circuits and Systems, Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation, Electronic Circuits and Devices