An Energy-Autonomous Power-and-Data Telemetry Circuit With Digital-Assisted-PLL-Based BPSK Demodulator for Implantable Flexible Electronics Applications

Wireless power transmission and data telemetry technology has been widely adopted in healthcare applications based on flexible electronics. It is challenging to achieve high data rate (up to Mbps), low bit-error-rate (BER< 0.1%) data telemetry, as well as simultaneous high ener...

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Autores principales: Luominghao Pan, Mingyi Chen, Yifei Chen, Siyao Zhu, Yan Liu
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:39e4355b1fdf4d49b9c0304bd1e276932021-11-25T00:01:14ZAn Energy-Autonomous Power-and-Data Telemetry Circuit With Digital-Assisted-PLL-Based BPSK Demodulator for Implantable Flexible Electronics Applications2644-122510.1109/OJCAS.2021.3119931https://doaj.org/article/39e4355b1fdf4d49b9c0304bd1e276932021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9626074/https://doaj.org/toc/2644-1225Wireless power transmission and data telemetry technology has been widely adopted in healthcare applications based on flexible electronics. It is challenging to achieve high data rate (up to Mbps), low bit-error-rate (BER&#x003C; 0.1&#x0025;) data telemetry, as well as simultaneous high energy-efficiency power transmission, with small-volume flexible devices. In this paper, an energy-autonomous power-and-data telemetry circuit with digital-assisted-phase lock loop (PLL)-based binary-phase-shift-keying (BPSK) demodulator for implantable flexible electronics applications has been proposed. Only a single pair of coils has been employed to transmit both power and data based on a BPSK modulated Class-E amplifier. The energy recovery circuit enables a battery-less energy-autonomous implantable device. The proposed digital-assisted control circuitry resets the PLL to maintain the lock state and demodulate the BPSK data. As a result, the maximum data rate is no longer limited by the PLL&#x2019;s bandwidth, which can be improved significantly. The chip has been implemented with standard 180nm CMOS process, occupying an area of 0.96 mm<sup>2</sup>. The post-layout simulation shows up to 2.26 Mbps data rate can be achieved with a low BER less than 8.6x10<sup>&#x2212;5</sup> with the coupling factor ranging from 0.13 to 0.17. Thanks to the digital-assisted-PLL-based demodulator, the power consumption of the receiver is only <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$817.4 ~\mu \text{W}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and the demodulator Figure-of-Merit (FoM) is 362 pJ/bit with 13.56 MHz carrier frequency. The energy-autonomous circuit based on a single and small-volume pair of coils demonstrates its potential capability to be applied to various kinds of implantable biomedical applications.Luominghao PanMingyi ChenYifei ChenSiyao ZhuYan LiuIEEEarticleFlexible electronicspower-and-data telemetryBPSKPLL-19 LL-based demodulatorElectric apparatus and materials. Electric circuits. Electric networksTK452-454.4ENIEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems, Vol 2, Pp 721-731 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic Flexible electronics
power-and-data telemetry
BPSK
PLL-19 LL-based demodulator
Electric apparatus and materials. Electric circuits. Electric networks
TK452-454.4
spellingShingle Flexible electronics
power-and-data telemetry
BPSK
PLL-19 LL-based demodulator
Electric apparatus and materials. Electric circuits. Electric networks
TK452-454.4
Luominghao Pan
Mingyi Chen
Yifei Chen
Siyao Zhu
Yan Liu
An Energy-Autonomous Power-and-Data Telemetry Circuit With Digital-Assisted-PLL-Based BPSK Demodulator for Implantable Flexible Electronics Applications
description Wireless power transmission and data telemetry technology has been widely adopted in healthcare applications based on flexible electronics. It is challenging to achieve high data rate (up to Mbps), low bit-error-rate (BER&#x003C; 0.1&#x0025;) data telemetry, as well as simultaneous high energy-efficiency power transmission, with small-volume flexible devices. In this paper, an energy-autonomous power-and-data telemetry circuit with digital-assisted-phase lock loop (PLL)-based binary-phase-shift-keying (BPSK) demodulator for implantable flexible electronics applications has been proposed. Only a single pair of coils has been employed to transmit both power and data based on a BPSK modulated Class-E amplifier. The energy recovery circuit enables a battery-less energy-autonomous implantable device. The proposed digital-assisted control circuitry resets the PLL to maintain the lock state and demodulate the BPSK data. As a result, the maximum data rate is no longer limited by the PLL&#x2019;s bandwidth, which can be improved significantly. The chip has been implemented with standard 180nm CMOS process, occupying an area of 0.96 mm<sup>2</sup>. The post-layout simulation shows up to 2.26 Mbps data rate can be achieved with a low BER less than 8.6x10<sup>&#x2212;5</sup> with the coupling factor ranging from 0.13 to 0.17. Thanks to the digital-assisted-PLL-based demodulator, the power consumption of the receiver is only <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$817.4 ~\mu \text{W}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and the demodulator Figure-of-Merit (FoM) is 362 pJ/bit with 13.56 MHz carrier frequency. The energy-autonomous circuit based on a single and small-volume pair of coils demonstrates its potential capability to be applied to various kinds of implantable biomedical applications.
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author Luominghao Pan
Mingyi Chen
Yifei Chen
Siyao Zhu
Yan Liu
author_facet Luominghao Pan
Mingyi Chen
Yifei Chen
Siyao Zhu
Yan Liu
author_sort Luominghao Pan
title An Energy-Autonomous Power-and-Data Telemetry Circuit With Digital-Assisted-PLL-Based BPSK Demodulator for Implantable Flexible Electronics Applications
title_short An Energy-Autonomous Power-and-Data Telemetry Circuit With Digital-Assisted-PLL-Based BPSK Demodulator for Implantable Flexible Electronics Applications
title_full An Energy-Autonomous Power-and-Data Telemetry Circuit With Digital-Assisted-PLL-Based BPSK Demodulator for Implantable Flexible Electronics Applications
title_fullStr An Energy-Autonomous Power-and-Data Telemetry Circuit With Digital-Assisted-PLL-Based BPSK Demodulator for Implantable Flexible Electronics Applications
title_full_unstemmed An Energy-Autonomous Power-and-Data Telemetry Circuit With Digital-Assisted-PLL-Based BPSK Demodulator for Implantable Flexible Electronics Applications
title_sort energy-autonomous power-and-data telemetry circuit with digital-assisted-pll-based bpsk demodulator for implantable flexible electronics applications
publisher IEEE
publishDate 2021
url https://doaj.org/article/39e4355b1fdf4d49b9c0304bd1e27693
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