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Wake-up Receiver Based Ultra-Low-Power WBAN

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The modulation and wake-up receiver specifications are studied in this chapter. In the first section a state-of-the-art low-power receiver literature survey is presented. Wideband-FSK modulation is proposed to be used in conjunction with a zero-IF architecture, since it alleviates the receiver imperfections such as 1/f noise, DC offset, I/Q imbalance and phase-noise problems. A mathematical model for the wideband-FSK modulation including is derived in this chapter. It is used to model the effects of receiver imperfections on the SNR and bit-error-rate at the output of the receiver.

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Notes

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    The phase-noise spectrum is defined relative to the carrier power and given in dBc/Hz. Thus the integrated spectral density should be one.

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  1. IMEC, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Maarten Lont

  2. Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Dusan Milosevic

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Arthur van Roermund

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Lont, M., Milosevic, D., van Roermund, A. (2014). Wake-up Receiver System Level Design. In: Wake-up Receiver Based Ultra-Low-Power WBAN. Analog Circuits and Signal Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06450-5_3

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