A 1.25 μJ per Measurement Ultrasound Rangefinder System in 65 nm CMOS for Explorations With a Swarm of Sensor Nodes
In: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, Jg. 68 (2021-04-01), S. 1409-1420
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This paper presents an ultrasound rangefinder system able to find relative distances among energy-constrained sensor nodes. The nodes build a swarm that is operated in collision and multipath rich environments. A new distance measurement technique combining Wake-up and Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) is proposed to enable the ranging while neglecting the echoes from passive reflectors in the environment. The building blocks of the sensor nodes comprise a transmitter, a wake-up receiver, and a ranging receiver, all implemented in a 65 nm CMOS technology. The transmitter includes two switched-capacitor converters and an output multiplexer to generate a four-level driving signal and broadcast either a wake-up sequence or a digitally synthesized ultrasound Chirp. The transmitter dissipates $0.43~\mu \text{J}$ and ${0.82~\mu \text {J}}$ to broadcast the wake-up signal and the Chirp, respectively. A mixer first architecture is exploited in the wake-up receiver to reduce the always-on power consumption of the nodes. The ranging receiver uses a heterodyne architecture suited for the FMCW. The power consumption of the wake-up receiver and ranging receiver is 23.6 nW and $0.56~\mu \text{W}$ , respectively. The proposed rangefinder is experimentally characterized up to a 1 m distance in air and dissipates $1.25~\mu \text {J}$ per measurement, achieving a resolution of 18.7 mm at 0.55 m.
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A 1.25 μJ per Measurement Ultrasound Rangefinder System in 65 nm CMOS for Explorations With a Swarm of Sensor Nodes
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Baltus, Peter ; Cantatore, Eugenio ; Berkol, Gonenc ; Harpe, Pieter ; Circuits, Integrated ; Center for Care & Cure Technology Eindhoven ; Resource Efficient Electronics ; Technologies, Emerging ; Health, EAISI ; Center for Wireless Technology Eindhoven |
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Zeitschrift: | IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, Jg. 68 (2021-04-01), S. 1409-1420 |
Veröffentlichung: | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021 |
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ISSN: | 1558-0806 (print) ; 1549-8328 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1109/tcsi.2021.3049246 |
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