A novel power-on-reset circuit for passive UHF RFID tag chip

Ang Wang; Lina Yu; Dehua Wu; Shibo Fu; Wanlin Gao; Wan’ang Xiao

doi:10.1088/1674-4926/39/12/125003

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SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS

A novel power-on-reset circuit for passive UHF RFID tag chip

Ang Wang^{1, 3}, Lina Yu^{1, 3}, Dehua Wu², Shibo Fu^{1, 3}, Wanlin Gao^{2, 4} and Wan’ang Xiao^{1, 3,}

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Corresponding author: Wan’ang Xiao, waxiao@semi.ac.cn

DOI: 10.1088/1674-4926/39/12/125003

Abstract: A novel power-on-reset (POR) circuit with simple architecture, small values of capacitances, ultra-lower power consumption, and self-adjustable delay time of reset pulse for passive UHF RFID tags is presented in this paper. A proposed delay element was adopted for the features of small capacitances and wide power supply rise time range. An inverter was used as a two-inputs logic device to simplify the architecture of the circuit. The technology used for design and simulation is SMIC 0.18 μm RF. Simulation results show that the circuit functions well under different process corners with different power supply rise time, and is able to generate a POR signal after the power supply is briefly powered off. The static power consumption is less than 30 pA. Moreover, the circuit operates properly along with other modules of analog front-end.

Key words: RFID, analog circuit, power-on-reset, ultra-lower power, delay element

References

[1]	Huang X, Liu Z, Liu L, et al. A compact low power ASK demodulator for passive UHF RFID tags. IEEE International Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits, 2015: 1629
[2]	Tashi, Hasan M S, Yu H. Design, simulation, prototyping and experimentation of planar micro-strip patch antenna for passive UHF RFID to tag for metallic objects. International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management & Applications, 2017: 243
[3]	Sharma V, Hashmi M. Chipless RFID tag based on open-loop resonator. IEEE Asia Pacific Microwave Conference, 2017: 543
[4]	Shen J P, Wang X A, Liu S, et al. Ultra-low power analog front-end for passive UHF RFID tags. IET International Conference on Information Science and Control Engineering, 2014: 2
[5]	Ahmed H, Muqarrab N, Zaffar M R, et al. A compact passive UHF RFID meandered dipole tag. Multi-Topic Conference, 2017: 1
[6]	Hadi D A, Soin N. Study on analog front end of passive UHF RFID transponder. Technical Postgraduates, 2009: 1
[7]	Zoscher L, Herkess P, Grosinger J, et al. Passive differential UHF RFID front-ends in a 40 nm CMOS technology. European Microwave Conference, 2017: 105
[8]	Wadhwa S K, Siddhartha G K, Gaurav A. Zero steady state current power on reset circuit with brown-out detector. International Conference on VLSI Design Held Jointly with, International Conference on Embedded Systems Design, 2006: 6
[9]	Yasuda T, Yamamoto M, Nishi T. A power-on reset pulse generator for low voltage applications. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2001: 599
[10]	Chen Y R. Power on reset generating circuit and method thereof. USA Patent, US7816957, 2010
[11]	Solis-Bustos S, Silva-Martinez J, Maloberti F, et al. A 60-dB dynamic-range CMOS sixth-order 2.4-Hz low-pass filter for medical applications. IEEE Trans Circuits Syst II, 2000, 47(12): 1391 doi: 10.1109/82.899631
[12]	Le H B, Do X D, Lee S G, et al. a long reset-time power-on reset circuit with brown-out detection capability. IEEE Trans Circuits Syst II, 2011, 58(11): 778 doi: 10.1109/TCSII.2011.2168017
[13]	Liu D, Lin H, Zou X, et al. A high sensitivity analog front-end circuit for semi-passive HF RFID tag applied to implantable devices. IEEE Trans Circuits Syst I, 2015, 62(8): 1991 doi: 10.1109/TCSI.2015.2440735
[14]	Tabesh M, Hamedi-Hagh S. An efficient 2.4 GHz radio frequency identification (RFID) in a standard CMOS process. Can J Electr Comput Eng, 2014, 36(3): 93
[15]	Lin Y S, Guo Z Y, Huang Y S, et al. A low-power UHF passive RFID transponder chip in 0.18 μm CMOS. Wireless Power Transfer Conference, 2017: 1
[16]	Curty J P, Joehl N, Dehollain C, et al. Remotely powered addressable UHF RFID integrated system. IEEE J Solid-State Circuits, 2005, 40(11): 2193 doi: 10.1109/JSSC.2005.857352
[17]	Cortes F P, Freitas G, Pimentel H L A, et al. Low-power/low-voltage analog front-end for LF passive RFID tag systems. Integr Circuits Syst Des, 2013: 1
[18]	Pandey P. Low-voltage power-on-reset circuit with least delay and high accuracy. Electron Lett, 2015, 51(11): 856 doi: 10.1049/el.2014.4203
[19]	Ay S U. A nanowatt cascadable delay element for compact power-on-reset (POR) circuits. IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2009: 62
[20]	Guo J, Shi W, Leung K N, et al. Power-on-reset circuit with power-off auto-discharging path for passive RFID tag ICs. IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2010: 21

Fig. 1. Schematic of a conventional POR circuit.

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Fig. 2. Diagram of the proposed POR circuit.

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Fig. 3. Special connection and logic function of an inverter.

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Fig. 4. Schematic of the delay element.

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Fig. 5. Schematic of the power-on-reset circuit.

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Fig. 6. Signal diagram of the POR circuit.

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Fig. 7. Simulation results of POR signal output with (a) 0.01 μs, (b) 1 μs, and (c) 100 μs rising times of power supply.

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Fig. 8. Simulation results of POR signal output with 1 μs rising time of power supply under ff, tt, and ss corners.

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Fig. 9. Simulation results of POR signal after power supply is briefly powered off.

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Fig. 10. Simulation results of power consumption with 10 μs rising time of power supply.

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Fig. 11. Simulation results of static power.

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Fig. 12. Simulation results of analog front-end.

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Table 1. Comparison with other published POR for passive RFID tags.

Parameter	Ref. [20]	Ref. [12]	Ref. [14]	Ref. [18]	This work
Supply voltage (V)	1.0	1.8	1.0	1.0	1.8
POR self-adjust according to PO	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Quiescent current (nA)	150	1000	345	5000	0.0295

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[1]	Huang X, Liu Z, Liu L, et al. A compact low power ASK demodulator for passive UHF RFID tags. IEEE International Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits, 2015: 1629
[2]	Tashi, Hasan M S, Yu H. Design, simulation, prototyping and experimentation of planar micro-strip patch antenna for passive UHF RFID to tag for metallic objects. International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management & Applications, 2017: 243
[3]	Sharma V, Hashmi M. Chipless RFID tag based on open-loop resonator. IEEE Asia Pacific Microwave Conference, 2017: 543
[4]	Shen J P, Wang X A, Liu S, et al. Ultra-low power analog front-end for passive UHF RFID tags. IET International Conference on Information Science and Control Engineering, 2014: 2
[5]	Ahmed H, Muqarrab N, Zaffar M R, et al. A compact passive UHF RFID meandered dipole tag. Multi-Topic Conference, 2017: 1
[6]	Hadi D A, Soin N. Study on analog front end of passive UHF RFID transponder. Technical Postgraduates, 2009: 1
[7]	Zoscher L, Herkess P, Grosinger J, et al. Passive differential UHF RFID front-ends in a 40 nm CMOS technology. European Microwave Conference, 2017: 105
[8]	Wadhwa S K, Siddhartha G K, Gaurav A. Zero steady state current power on reset circuit with brown-out detector. International Conference on VLSI Design Held Jointly with, International Conference on Embedded Systems Design, 2006: 6
[9]	Yasuda T, Yamamoto M, Nishi T. A power-on reset pulse generator for low voltage applications. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2001: 599
[10]	Chen Y R. Power on reset generating circuit and method thereof. USA Patent, US7816957, 2010
[11]	Solis-Bustos S, Silva-Martinez J, Maloberti F, et al. A 60-dB dynamic-range CMOS sixth-order 2.4-Hz low-pass filter for medical applications. IEEE Trans Circuits Syst II, 2000, 47(12): 1391 doi: 10.1109/82.899631
[12]	Le H B, Do X D, Lee S G, et al. a long reset-time power-on reset circuit with brown-out detection capability. IEEE Trans Circuits Syst II, 2011, 58(11): 778 doi: 10.1109/TCSII.2011.2168017
[13]	Liu D, Lin H, Zou X, et al. A high sensitivity analog front-end circuit for semi-passive HF RFID tag applied to implantable devices. IEEE Trans Circuits Syst I, 2015, 62(8): 1991 doi: 10.1109/TCSI.2015.2440735
[14]	Tabesh M, Hamedi-Hagh S. An efficient 2.4 GHz radio frequency identification (RFID) in a standard CMOS process. Can J Electr Comput Eng, 2014, 36(3): 93
[15]	Lin Y S, Guo Z Y, Huang Y S, et al. A low-power UHF passive RFID transponder chip in 0.18 μm CMOS. Wireless Power Transfer Conference, 2017: 1
[16]	Curty J P, Joehl N, Dehollain C, et al. Remotely powered addressable UHF RFID integrated system. IEEE J Solid-State Circuits, 2005, 40(11): 2193 doi: 10.1109/JSSC.2005.857352
[17]	Cortes F P, Freitas G, Pimentel H L A, et al. Low-power/low-voltage analog front-end for LF passive RFID tag systems. Integr Circuits Syst Des, 2013: 1
[18]	Pandey P. Low-voltage power-on-reset circuit with least delay and high accuracy. Electron Lett, 2015, 51(11): 856 doi: 10.1049/el.2014.4203
[19]	Ay S U. A nanowatt cascadable delay element for compact power-on-reset (POR) circuits. IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2009: 62
[20]	Guo J, Shi W, Leung K N, et al. Power-on-reset circuit with power-off auto-discharging path for passive RFID tag ICs. IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2010: 21

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A novel power-on-reset circuit for passive UHF RFID tag chip

DOI: 10.1088/1674-4926/39/12/125003

Ang Wang^1,3,
Lina Yu^1,3,
Dehua Wu²,
Shibo Fu^1,3,
Wanlin Gao^2,4,
Wan’ang Xiao^1,3,

1.
Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China
2.
College of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China
3.
School of Microelectronics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
4.
Key Laboratory of Agricultural Informationization Standardization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Beijing 100083, China

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Project supported by the Key Laboratory of Agricultural Informatization Standardization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.

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Corresponding author: waxiao@semi.ac.cn
Received Date: 2018-03-31
Revised Date: 2018-05-07
Published Date: 2018-12-01

Abstract

Abstract

A novel power-on-reset (POR) circuit with simple architecture, small values of capacitances, ultra-lower power consumption, and self-adjustable delay time of reset pulse for passive UHF RFID tags is presented in this paper. A proposed delay element was adopted for the features of small capacitances and wide power supply rise time range. An inverter was used as a two-inputs logic device to simplify the architecture of the circuit. The technology used for design and simulation is SMIC 0.18 μm RF. Simulation results show that the circuit functions well under different process corners with different power supply rise time, and is able to generate a POR signal after the power supply is briefly powered off. The static power consumption is less than 30 pA. Moreover, the circuit operates properly along with other modules of analog front-end.
- RFID,
- analog circuit,
- power-on-reset,
- ultra-lower power,
- delay element

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[1]	Huang X, Liu Z, Liu L, et al. A compact low power ASK demodulator for passive UHF RFID tags. IEEE International Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits, 2015: 1629
[2]	Tashi, Hasan M S, Yu H. Design, simulation, prototyping and experimentation of planar micro-strip patch antenna for passive UHF RFID to tag for metallic objects. International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management & Applications, 2017: 243
[3]	Sharma V, Hashmi M. Chipless RFID tag based on open-loop resonator. IEEE Asia Pacific Microwave Conference, 2017: 543
[4]	Shen J P, Wang X A, Liu S, et al. Ultra-low power analog front-end for passive UHF RFID tags. IET International Conference on Information Science and Control Engineering, 2014: 2
[5]	Ahmed H, Muqarrab N, Zaffar M R, et al. A compact passive UHF RFID meandered dipole tag. Multi-Topic Conference, 2017: 1
[6]	Hadi D A, Soin N. Study on analog front end of passive UHF RFID transponder. Technical Postgraduates, 2009: 1
[7]	Zoscher L, Herkess P, Grosinger J, et al. Passive differential UHF RFID front-ends in a 40 nm CMOS technology. European Microwave Conference, 2017: 105
[8]	Wadhwa S K, Siddhartha G K, Gaurav A. Zero steady state current power on reset circuit with brown-out detector. International Conference on VLSI Design Held Jointly with, International Conference on Embedded Systems Design, 2006: 6
[9]	Yasuda T, Yamamoto M, Nishi T. A power-on reset pulse generator for low voltage applications. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2001: 599
[10]	Chen Y R. Power on reset generating circuit and method thereof. USA Patent, US7816957, 2010
[11]	Solis-Bustos S, Silva-Martinez J, Maloberti F, et al. A 60-dB dynamic-range CMOS sixth-order 2.4-Hz low-pass filter for medical applications. IEEE Trans Circuits Syst II, 2000, 47(12): 1391 doi: 10.1109/82.899631
[12]	Le H B, Do X D, Lee S G, et al. a long reset-time power-on reset circuit with brown-out detection capability. IEEE Trans Circuits Syst II, 2011, 58(11): 778 doi: 10.1109/TCSII.2011.2168017
[13]	Liu D, Lin H, Zou X, et al. A high sensitivity analog front-end circuit for semi-passive HF RFID tag applied to implantable devices. IEEE Trans Circuits Syst I, 2015, 62(8): 1991 doi: 10.1109/TCSI.2015.2440735
[14]	Tabesh M, Hamedi-Hagh S. An efficient 2.4 GHz radio frequency identification (RFID) in a standard CMOS process. Can J Electr Comput Eng, 2014, 36(3): 93
[15]	Lin Y S, Guo Z Y, Huang Y S, et al. A low-power UHF passive RFID transponder chip in 0.18 μm CMOS. Wireless Power Transfer Conference, 2017: 1
[16]	Curty J P, Joehl N, Dehollain C, et al. Remotely powered addressable UHF RFID integrated system. IEEE J Solid-State Circuits, 2005, 40(11): 2193 doi: 10.1109/JSSC.2005.857352
[17]	Cortes F P, Freitas G, Pimentel H L A, et al. Low-power/low-voltage analog front-end for LF passive RFID tag systems. Integr Circuits Syst Des, 2013: 1
[18]	Pandey P. Low-voltage power-on-reset circuit with least delay and high accuracy. Electron Lett, 2015, 51(11): 856 doi: 10.1049/el.2014.4203
[19]	Ay S U. A nanowatt cascadable delay element for compact power-on-reset (POR) circuits. IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2009: 62
[20]	Guo J, Shi W, Leung K N, et al. Power-on-reset circuit with power-off auto-discharging path for passive RFID tag ICs. IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2010: 21

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