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Ultra-Low-Power Clock Generation for IoT Radios

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Low-Power Analog Techniques, Sensors for Mobile Devices, and Energy Efficient Amplifiers

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Duty-cycling is required to reduce the overall power consumption in IoT systems to extend the battery lifetime, which requires ultra-low-power clock generations. In this work, both the role of clocking in the whole system and the technical challenges for on-demand burst-mode operation will be discussed. In addition, an overview of state-of-the-art low-energy clock generation techniques and their performance trade-offs in terms of frequency, stability, and noise will be provided. As an example, we will show two clock generation circuits to illustrate how the challenges can be addressed.

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  1. Holst Centre/imec, Eindhoven, Netherlands

    Ming Ding, Yao-Hong Liu, Christian Bachmann & Kathleen Philips

  2. Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands

    Ming Ding

  3. Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Pieter Harpe & Arthur van Roermund

  4. Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Zhihao Zhou & Fabio Sebastiano

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Ding, M. et al. (2019). Ultra-Low-Power Clock Generation for IoT Radios. In: Makinwa, K., Baschirotto, A., Harpe, P. (eds) Low-Power Analog Techniques, Sensors for Mobile Devices, and Energy Efficient Amplifiers . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97870-3_5

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