Chip Gallery Spectrum Sensing

Designers:

Sharon Xiao

Tapeout:

TSMC 65nm, September 2012

Description:

This chip contains a 300MHz-700MHz spectrum sensing receiver for UHF TV white space applications. For a 6MHz TV band channel, the system achieves -91dBm sensitivity with rapid energy detection, -104dBm sensitivity with correlation, and 84dB of full-scale dynamic range, while consuming only 28mW of power.

Related publications:

RFIC 2014