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A MEMS-based 2.4-GHz sub-sampling RF front-end for advanced healthcare applications

Christian Enz, Aravind Prasad Heragu Singaiyengar

This work presents a Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) resonator based 2.4-GHz front-end compliant to the Bluetooth LE standard and targeting advanced biomedical applications. A new transceiver architecture is proposed that combines BAW resonators and a sub-samplin ...

2011

Analysis of Ultralow-Power Asynchronous ADCs

Christian Enz, Aravind Prasad Heragu Singaiyengar

In this paper, analysis of a novel class of A/D converters based on asynchronous delta modulation (DM) is presented and a high level model is realized for the same. Using the high level model, analytical expressions are derived for the calculation of the i ...

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A Multiband Concurrent Sampling based RF Front End for Biotelemetry Applications

Christian Enz, Aravind Prasad Heragu Singaiyengar

A sub-sampling based multiband RF front end suitable for medical telemetry applications is presented. Using a single inductor and a single sampling frequency it is shown how to downconvert concurrently Bluetooth LE and MICS band signals to baseband with re ...

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A Narrowband Multi-Channel 2.4 GHz MEMS-Based Transceiver

Christian Enz

This paper presents a new radio architecture targeting RF transceivers for WSN, WBAN, and biomedical applications. The high miniaturization required by such applications is achieved thanks to the combination of high-Q MEMS devices, such as RF BAW re ...

2009

A Novel Complex Gm-C IF Sub-Sampling Mixer

Christian Enz, Aravind Prasad Heragu Singaiyengar

In this paper, a novel circuit referred to as complex Gm-C sampler that can be used for sub-sampling IF signals is presented. The circuit employs a conventional cross-coupled Gm-C filter structure with a built-in sampler to combine th ...

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Analysis of a Novel BAW-based Power Amplifier

Christian Enz

A novel MEMS-based co-designed power amplifier is presented. To introduce the analysis and evaluate the impact of realistic on-chip losses, two design approaches are discussed and compared. Then the study of the novel circuit, based on the integration of h ...

2009

A Concurrent Quadrature Sub-Sampling Mixer for Multiband Receivers

Christian Enz, Aravind Prasad Heragu Singaiyengar

A quadrature sub-sampling direct conversion mixer capable of sampling two or more bands concurrently using a single sampling frequency is presented. The implementation of the mixer to sample a band in quadrature and downconvert it to baseband is discussed ...

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A Low-Power Programmable Dynamic Frequency Divider

Christian Enz

In this paper, a solution to realize a low-power programmable frequency divider using dynamic logic is proposed. By cascading compact dual-modulus divider slice with recursive feedback mechanisms, any dividing ratio is easily implemented. A 5-stages 0.18 m ...

2008

Impact of Lateral Asymmetry of MOSFETs on the Gate and Drain Noise Correlation

Christian Enz, Ananda Sankar Roy

Recent studies of Lim et al. have shown that channel engineering can effectively be used to globally improve the device noise performance. This happens because the doping profile can strongly impact the correlation between the drain and induc ...

2008

Ultra Low-Power MEMS-based Radio for Wireless Sensor Networks

Christian Enz, Nicola Scolari

The recent advances made in MEMS and particularly in RF MEMS technology are enabling new architectures for the integration of RF transceivers with improved performance and smaller size. Several fundamental building blocks benefit from the availability of h ...

2007