Description
This dissertation addresses challenges and concerns of designing an ultra-low power high performance wake-up radio. It proposes a two-step wake-up architecture including energy detection mode and address detection mode to reduce the active power dissipation meanwhile improving the robustness and reliability of the system. Design metrics has been provided to serve as a guideline for detailed circuit implementations. Based on that, a wake-up radio prototype has been built in TSMC 65nm standard CMOS targeting 915MHz band for IEEE 802.15.4g. This prototype focuses on improving the sensitivity performance at an ultra-low power level. It consumes only 45µW in energy detection mode. With 20µs detection time, it is able to achieve a sensitivity of -90dBm at 10-2 error rates. In address detection mode, it consumes 300 µW and is able to achieve a sensitivity of -74.5dBm at 10-3 BER.