CMOS Circuits for Passive Wireless Microsystems

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of CMOS circuits for passive wireless microsystems. Major topics include: an overview of passive wireless microsystems, design challenges of passive wireless microsystems, fundamental issues of ultra-low power wireless communications, radio-frequency power harvesting, ultra-low power modulators and demodulators, ultra-low power temperature-compensated current and voltage references, clock generation and remote calibration, and advanced design techniques for ultra low-power analog signal processing.

About the AuthorFei Yuan received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Universityof Waterloo, Canada in October 1999. He joined the Department of ElectricalandComputer Engineering, RyersonUniversity, Toronto, Canada in 1999 and iscurrently a Professor. Dr. Yuan is the author of the bookCMOSActive Inductorsand Transformers : Principle, Implementation, and Applications (Springer,New York, 2008), CMOS Current Mode Circuits for Data Communications(Springer, New York, 2006), the coauthor of the book Computer Methods forAnalysis of Mixed Mode Switching Circuits (withAjoyOpal, KluwerAcademicPublishers, Boston, 2004), and the author / coauthor of 47 research papers inrefereed scientific journals and over 90 research papers in refereed conferenceproceedings in the field of circuits and systems.Dr. Yuan currently serves the Chair of the Department of Electrical andComputer Engineering, Ryerson University. He also serves as the AssociateEditor of Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering and ison the editorial board of several international journals. He was awarded theRyerson Research Chair from Ryerson University in Jan. 2005, the ResearchExcellence Award from the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science ofRyerson University in 2004, the Early Tenure from Ryerson University in2002, the Doctoral Scholarship from the Natural Science and EngineeringResearch Council of Canada during 19971998, and the Teaching ExcellenceAward from Changzhou Institute of Technology, Jiangsu, China in 1988. Dr.Yuan is a senior member of IEEE and a registered professional engineer in theprovince of Ontario, Canada.