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Introduction to Ultra Low Power Transceiver Design

Authors : Dhongue Lee, Patrick P. Mercier

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Design of radios with ultra-low-power consumption can enable many new and exciting applications ranging from wearable healthcare to Internet of Things devices and beyond. Achieving low power operation is usually an exercise in trading-off important performance metrics with power. This chapter presents an overview of state-of-the-art narrowband architectures and techniques that achieve ultra-low-power operation, and concludes with a section that benchmarks recent state-of-the-art designs in order to illustrate power-performance trade-offs.

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Title: Introduction to Ultra Low Power Transceiver Design
Authors: Dhongue Lee
Patrick P. Mercier
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Ultra-Low-Power Short-Range Radios
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-14713-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-14714-7

Copyright Year: 2015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14714-7_1