access icon free Wireless energy-harvesting circuit and system with error-correction ASK demodulator for body sensor network with ultra-high-frequency RFID healthcare system

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Received 14/07/2017, Accepted 12/09/2017, Revised 20/08/2017, Published 26/09/2017

This study presents a low-power energy-harvesting circuit with error-correction demodulation for body sensor networks with radio-frequency identification (RFID) systems. The proposed circuit adopts a new structure that facilitates the demodulation of amplitude-shift-keying (ASK) signals, and it includes a power unit consisting of a wake-up circuit and a power-on-reset control circuit. The wireless bio-signal acquisition system and the digital processor are implemented on a field-programmable gate array to demonstrate the proposed RFID tag. The proposed energy-harvesting circuit can substantially decrease the capacitance used by the demodulator circuit and the wake-up circuit to as low as 14 pF. Moreover, a detection circuit and a correcting circuit are utilised to reduce the bit error rate of decoding. The wireless bio-signal acquisition scenario is also set up and the communication signal between reader and tag is measured to demonstrate the system that can be employed in body sensor network with the healthcare system. The chip was implemented in complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor 0.18 μm technology. The sensitivity of this work is − 13 dBm. The pulse width error can be reduced to <1% by the error-correction demodulator to fit the EPC Gen-2 standard.

Inspec keywords: radiofrequency identification; body sensor networks; error correction codes; health care; CMOS integrated circuits; demodulators; low-power electronics; energy harvesting; detector circuits; amplitude shift keying; biomedical electronics; field programmable gate arrays

Other keywords: body sensor network; decoding; ultra-high-frequency RFID healthcare system; wireless bio-signal acquisition system; digital processor; low-power energy-harvesting circuit; complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology; EPC Gen-2 standard; size 0.18 mum; bit error rate; detection circuit; wireless energy-harvesting circuit; correcting circuit; power unit; pulse width error; error-correction ASK demodulator; RFID tag; radio-frequency identification system; communication signal; amplitude-shift-keying signal demodulation; wireless energy-harvesting system; wake-up circuit; power-on-reset control circuit; field-programmable gate array

Subjects: RFID systems; Logic circuits; Biomedical communication; CMOS integrated circuits; Modulators, demodulators, discriminators and mixers; Wireless sensor networks; Codes

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