A low-power CMOS WIA-PA transceiver with a high sensitivity GFSK demodulator

This paper presents a low power, high sensitivity Gaussian frequency shift keying (GFSK) demodulator with a flexible frequency offset canceling method for wireless networks for industrial automation process automation (WIA-PA) transceiver fabricated in 0.18 μm CMOS technology. The receiver uses a low-IF (1.5 MHz) architecture, and the transmitter uses a sigma delta PLL based modulation with Gaussian low-pass filter for low power consumption. The active area of the demodulator is 0.14 mm². Measurement results show that the proposed demodulator operates without harmonic distortion, deals with ± 180 kHz frequency offset, needs SNR only 18.5 dB at 0.1% bit-error rate (BER), and consumes no more than 0.26 mA from a 1.8 V power supply. (paper)