A Comparative Study of Super-Regenerative Receivers for BAN Applications
S. Saleh, G. Hamdy, A. Zaki, H. Elsemary (Electronics Research Inst., Egypt)
Super-regenerative receivers have regained attention due to their unique properties making them suitable candidates for applications necessitating simplicity and ultra low power consumption such as Body Area Networks (BAN) targeting medical devices and near body entertainment devices. In this paper, several super-regenerative receivers are proposed showing the flexibility and the ability to accommodate proper demodulation off OOK and M-ary PSK modulated signal with a very limited power budget. Circuit implementation and simulation results are shown.
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