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RF and Low Power Analog Design for RFID

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A passive RFID tag consists of an antenna and IC operating without a battery. The DC power required to operate the IC is generated by converting the incoming RF field to a DC supply using a rectifier. The minimum DC power available from the rectifier is on the order of a few micro-watts, and this is the power available to operate the tag, comprised of various sub-systems. Each sub-system is typically allocated only hundreds of nano-watts of DC power to operate. The basic functional analog sub-systems of the IC include rectifier, RF and DC power management, data receiver, backscatter modulator, non-volatile memory controller, and additional supporting sub-circuits. This paper addresses several aspects of the design of RF and Analog Front End circuits for RFID.

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    Raymond Barnett

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    Herman Casier

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    Michiel Steyaert

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, 5612 AZ, Netherlands

    Arthur H.M. van Roermund

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Barnett, R. (2011). RF and Low Power Analog Design for RFID. In: Casier, H., Steyaert, M., van Roermund, A. (eds) Analog Circuit Design. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0391-9_15

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