A Low-Power BLE Transceiver with Support for Phase-Based Ranging, Featuring 5μs PLL Locking Time and 5.3ms Ranging Time, Enabled by Staircase-Chirp PLL with Sticky-Lock Channel-Switching

Elbert Bechthum; Johan DIjkhuis; Ming DIng; Yuming He; Johan Van Den Heuvel; Paul Mateman; Gert Jan Van Schaik; Kenichi Shibata; Minyoung Song; Evgenii Tiurin; Stefano Traferro; Yao Hong Liu; Christian Bachmann

doi:10.1109/ISSCC19947.2020.9063073

A Low-Power BLE Transceiver with Support for Phase-Based Ranging, Featuring 5μs PLL Locking Time and 5.3ms Ranging Time, Enabled by Staircase-Chirp PLL with Sticky-Lock Channel-Switching

Elbert Bechthum
, Johan DIjkhuis
, Ming DIng
, Yuming He
, Johan Van Den Heuvel
, Paul Mateman
, Gert Jan Van Schaik
, Kenichi Shibata
, Minyoung Song
, Evgenii Tiurin
, Stefano Traferro
, Yao Hong Liu
, Christian Bachmann

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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Abstract

Nowadays, almost every mobile device features Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) connectivity. Accurate RF-based ranging is of major importance to enable rapidly emerging applications such as indoor localization and navigation, asset tracking as well as secure access control. Phase-based ranging has many advantages over other methods such as Time-of-Flight or signal-strength-based approaches [1]. Phase-based ranging is based on the phase difference between the two nodes, which depends on the RF frequency. To mitigate multipath problems and deal with the 2n ambiguity in phase measurements, the phase difference is measured on multiple frequencies, i.e. Multi-Carrier Phase Difference (MCPD) [1].

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2020 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, ISSCC 2020
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	470-472
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728132044
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC19947.2020.9063073
State	Published - Feb 2020
Event	2020 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, ISSCC 2020 - San Francisco, United States Duration: 16 Feb 2020 → 20 Feb 2020

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Name	Digest of Technical Papers - IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference
Volume	2020-February
ISSN (Print)	0193-6530

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Conference	2020 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, ISSCC 2020
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Francisco
Period	16/02/20 → 20/02/20

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Bechthum, E., DIjkhuis, J., DIng, M., He, Y., Van Den Heuvel, J., Mateman, P., Van Schaik, G. J., Shibata, K., Song, M., Tiurin, E., Traferro, S., Liu, Y. H., & Bachmann, C. (2020). A Low-Power BLE Transceiver with Support for Phase-Based Ranging, Featuring 5μs PLL Locking Time and 5.3ms Ranging Time, Enabled by Staircase-Chirp PLL with Sticky-Lock Channel-Switching. In 2020 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, ISSCC 2020 (pp. 470-472). Article 9063073 (Digest of Technical Papers - IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference; Vol. 2020-February). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC19947.2020.9063073

Bechthum, Elbert ; DIjkhuis, Johan ; DIng, Ming et al. / A Low-Power BLE Transceiver with Support for Phase-Based Ranging, Featuring 5μs PLL Locking Time and 5.3ms Ranging Time, Enabled by Staircase-Chirp PLL with Sticky-Lock Channel-Switching. 2020 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, ISSCC 2020. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020. pp. 470-472 (Digest of Technical Papers - IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference).

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A Low-Power BLE Transceiver with Support for Phase-Based Ranging, Featuring 5μs PLL Locking Time and 5.3ms Ranging Time, Enabled by Staircase-Chirp PLL with Sticky-Lock Channel-Switching. / Bechthum, Elbert; DIjkhuis, Johan; DIng, Ming et al.
2020 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, ISSCC 2020. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020. p. 470-472 9063073 (Digest of Technical Papers - IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference; Vol. 2020-February).

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A Low-Power BLE Transceiver with Support for Phase-Based Ranging, Featuring 5μs PLL Locking Time and 5.3ms Ranging Time, Enabled by Staircase-Chirp PLL with Sticky-Lock Channel-Switching

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