An Energy Efficient Digital Baseband for Batteryless Remote Control

In this paper, an energy efficient digital baseband circuit for piezoelectric (PE) harvester powered batteryless remote control system is presented. Pulse mode PE harvester, which provides short duration of energy, is adopted to replace conventional chemical battery in wireless remote controller. The transmitter digital baseband repeats the control command transmission once the digital circuit is initiated by the power-on-reset. A power efficient data frame format is proposed to maximize the transmission repetition time. By using the proposed frame format and receiver clock and data recovery method, the receiver baseband is able to decode the command even when the received data has 20% error. The proposed transmitter and receiver baseband are implemented using FPGA and simulation results are presented.

• Wei-Da Toh
• Yuan Gao
• Minkyu Je

• Clock and Data Recovery (CDR)
• Correlator
• Digital Baseband
• Gold Code
• Power-On-Reset.

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