Super-regenerative receiver at 433 MHz

This paper presents a receiver for operation in the 433MHz ISM band. The selected architecture explores the super-regeneration phenomena to achieve a high sensitivity for applying in wireless implantable microsystems. This radio-frequency (RF) chip can be supplied with a voltage of only 3V for demodulating signals with powers in the range (-100, -40)dB. The codulation (modulation and coding) scheme of the binary data is a variation of the Manchester code combined with on/off keying (OOK) modulation. The AMIS 0.7@mm CMOS process was selected for targeting the requirement to fabricate a low-cost receiver, whose prototype was integrated in a die with an area of 5x5mm^2. Also, this receiver is fully compatible with commercial transmitters for the same frequency.

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