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Voltage regulator system for a passive UHF RFID transponder.
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Jinpeng Shen, Xin'an Wang, Shan Liu, Shoucheng Li, Zhengkun Ruan. A voltage regulator system with dynamic bandwidth boosting for passive UHF RFID transponders[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2013, 34(10): 105004. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/34/10/105004
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J P Shen, X A Wang, S Liu, S C Li, Z K Ruan. A voltage regulator system with dynamic bandwidth boosting for passive UHF RFID transponders[J]. J. Semicond., 2013, 34(10): 105004. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/34/10/105004.
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A voltage regulator system with dynamic bandwidth boosting for passive UHF RFID transponders
DOI: 10.1088/1674-4926/34/10/105004
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Abstract
This paper presents a voltage regulator system for passive UHF RFID transponders, which contains a rectifier, a limiter, and a regulator. The rectifier achieves power by rectifying the incoming RF energy. Due to the huge variation of the rectified voltage, a limiter at the rectifier output is used to clamp the rectified voltage. In this paper, the design of a limiter circuit is discussed in detail, which can provide a stable limiting voltage with low sensitivity to temperature variation and process dispersion. The key aspect of the voltage regulator system is the dynamic bandwidth boosting in the regulator. By sensing the excess current that is bypassed in the limiter during periods of excess energy, the bias current as well as the bandwidth of the regulator are increased, the output supply voltage can recover quickly from line transients during the periods of no RF energy to a full blast of RF energy. This voltage regulator system is implemented in a 0.18 μm CMOS process. -
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