An 802.15.6 HBC Standard Compatible Transceiver and 90 pJ/b Full-Duplex Transceiver for Body Channel Communication

Abstract

In this paper, a new Body Channel Communication (BCC) transceiver (TRX) that can support IEEE 802.15 HBC PHY standard and high-speed data transmission is proposed. First, the sinusoidal-modulated transmitter is proposed for the standard mode transceiver, and it can reduce filtering power overhead 35%. Second, high-speed TRX with dual-band Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK) modulation is proposed to increase system data rate and bandwidth efficiency. In third, on-chip RC duplexer is integrated for full-duplex function. The transceiver is implemented with 180nm CMOS process. As a result, the proposed transceiver satisfies high scalability of WBAN standard as well as high data rate requirements in designated multimedia applications.