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IEEE ACCESS
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages 159379-159389Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2950622
Keywords
Demodulation; Data communication; Coils; Amplitude shift keying; Implants; Downlink; Carrier width modulation; demodulator; downlink data transmission; inductive link
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
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In this paper, we present a new Carrier Width Modulation (CWM) scheme for simultaneous transfer of power and data over a single inductive link. An ultra-low power CWM demodulator is also proposed. Unlike conventional demodulators for a similar modulation scheme, the proposed CWM circuit allows higher-speed demodulation and simple implementation. It works well as a generic demodulator operating at a frequency range between 10 and 31 MHz. It also supports a wide range of data rates under any selected frequency from the operating range. A CWM-based scheme encoding two-bit-per-symbol, called Quad-level CWM (QCWM) is also proposed. The latter allows high data-rates-to-frequency ratios. Using a 0.13-$\mu m$ CMOS process and 1.2 V power supply, both CWM and QCWM demodulators were implemented and fabricated. They respectively occupy die sizes of 2137 and 3256 $\mu m<^>{2}$ and dissipate, in worst conditions, 16.9 and 35.5 $\mu W$ . Compared with state-of-the-art demodulators used for inductive forward data transmission, the proposed demodulators are distinctive given their low-energy efficiency and small silicon areas.
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