IbTIECar
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Project Title:
Fully Integrated Low-Power IEEE802.11ah Compliant IoT Transceiver
Number of students: 7 from main stream and 9 from CHS CCE-E track
Supervisors: Dr. Mohamed Aboudina and Dr. Faisal Hussien
Abstract and importance:
A low power IoT transceiver is proposed and investigated to comply with the novel 802.11ah standard. This work presents system level requirements and specifications derived from the standard upon which the proposed architectures for the transceiver were chosen and hence implemented. A direct conversion architecture was chosen for the receiver, whereas a polar architecture with variable power amplifier supply was chosen for the transmitter. Block level requirement are derived, and digital signal processing techniques are proposed to meet the standard’s stringent requirements. The receiver chain consumes a total power of 6mW, while the transmitter consumes less than 4.5mW with a total transmitted power of 0 dBm. All the work is implemented using the umc 130nm technology. Monte Carlo and Corners simulations were carried out across a wide variations’ ranges as we were designing for manufacturability.
This is a Die photo of the receiver. A similar photo for the transmitter exists but that would be redundant
The project won the 1st prize in IBTIECAR Competition held in Feb 2017.
NB: IbTIECar: is an Innovation Recognition program for the students. It was launched by the Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center(TIEC) in 2012. TIEC aims to drive innovation and entrepreneurship in information and communications technology sector (ICT) for the benefit of national economy.