A 380pW Dual Mode Optical Wake-up Receiver with Ambient Noise Cancellation

Wootaek Lim; Taekwang Jang; Inhee Lee; Hun-Seok Kim; Dennis Sylvester; David Blaauw

doi:10.1109/VLSIC.2016.7573481

A 380pW Dual Mode Optical Wake-up Receiver with Ambient Noise Cancellation

Symp VLSI Circuits. 2016 Jun:2016:10.1109/VLSIC.2016.7573481. doi: 10.1109/VLSIC.2016.7573481. Epub 2016 Sep 22.

Authors

Wootaek Lim¹, Taekwang Jang¹, Inhee Lee¹, Hun-Seok Kim¹, Dennis Sylvester¹, David Blaauw¹

Affiliation

¹ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, imhotep@umich.edu.

Abstract

We present a sub-nW optical wake-up receiver for wireless sensor nodes. The wake-up receiver supports dual mode operation for both ultra-low standby power and high data rates, while canceling ambient in-band noise. In 0.18µm CMOS the receiver consumes 380pW in always-on wake-up mode and 28.1µW in fast RX mode at 250kbps.

Grants and funding

R01 CA195655/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States