A 915MHz $19\mu \mathrm{W}$ Blocker-Enhanced Wake-Up Receiver with Frequency-Hopping Two-Tone Modulation Achieving 53dB Tolerance to In-Band Interference

Abstract

A 915MHz ultra-low-power blocker-enhanced wake- up receiver (BE-WuRx) is presented in a 65nm CMOS process. Employing the proposed frequency-hopping two-tone modulation (FH-TTM), the BE-WuRx can dynamically convert the in-band blocker power to data power, and achieves a −63.6dBm sensitivity without blocker and a −90dBm enhanced sensitivity with a −25dBm CW interferer, while just consuming $\mathbf{19}\mathbf{\mu}\mathbf{W}$. With the −63.6dBm sensitivity, the BE-WuRx performs 53dB tolerance to the in-band blocker, exhibiting 14dB improvement compared to the case that FH- TTM is off. The wake-up latency is 6.4ms for a quiet channel and 6.4 to 64ms for a congested channel.