An Ultra-Miniaturised CMOS Clock and Data Recovery System for Wireless ASK Transmission

Over the years, several clock and data recovery architectures have been proposed for wireless Amplitude Shift Keying (ASK) transmitted signals. State-of-the-art architectures mainly rely on synchronous phase-locked loop circuits or self- sampling systems, both resulting in large area consumption. This work presents a novel CMOS architecture for Clock and Data Recovery (CDR) in miniaturised and wirelessly powered implants. The proposed CDR architecture works at 433.92 MHz and includes: an ASK-demodulator, an on-chip oscillator, a power-on-reset, a control and a recovering block operating in feedback-loop. The ASK-demodulator works for a data rate as high as 6 Mbps and a modulation index in the range of 9-30%. A novel communication protocol is presented for a separated clock and data transmission. The entire CDR architecture occupies 17×89μm2 and consumes 15.01μW while operating with a clock rate of 6 Mbps.