TY - GEN
T1 - A Self-Synchronizing, Low-Power, Low-Complexity Transceiver for Body-Coupled Communication∗
AU - Muzaffar, Shahzad
AU - Elfadel, Ibrahim Abe M.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work has been supported by the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) under the Abu Dhabi SRC Center of Excellence on Energy-Efficient Electronic Systems (ACE4S), Contract 2013 HJ2440, with customized funding from the Mubadala Investment Company, Abu Dhabi, UAE. The experimental procedures involving human subjects described in this paper were approved by the Research Ethics Committee.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/7
Y1 - 2019/7
N2 - This paper presents a self-synchronizing, low-power, low-complexity body-coupled communication (BCC) transceiver using the recently proposed Pulsed-Index Communication (PIC) techniques. The unique features of these techniques are used to simplify the BCC transceiver hardware and reduce its power consumption by eliminating the need for circuitries dedicated to clock and data recovery (CDR) and duty cycle correction. The self-synchronizing feature of the transceiver is achieved by exploiting the edge-coding property of PIC which consists of using pulse edges for encoding and detecting transmitted pulses rather than bit times or duty cycles. A working prototype of the proposed BCC transceiver using off-the-shelf components is developed and used to test, for the first time, a full, bi-directional BCC link by transmitting arbitrary 16-bit data words through the human body over a range of 150cm with zero bit-error rate and sub-1nJ/bit energy efficiency.
AB - This paper presents a self-synchronizing, low-power, low-complexity body-coupled communication (BCC) transceiver using the recently proposed Pulsed-Index Communication (PIC) techniques. The unique features of these techniques are used to simplify the BCC transceiver hardware and reduce its power consumption by eliminating the need for circuitries dedicated to clock and data recovery (CDR) and duty cycle correction. The self-synchronizing feature of the transceiver is achieved by exploiting the edge-coding property of PIC which consists of using pulse edges for encoding and detecting transmitted pulses rather than bit times or duty cycles. A working prototype of the proposed BCC transceiver using off-the-shelf components is developed and used to test, for the first time, a full, bi-directional BCC link by transmitting arbitrary 16-bit data words through the human body over a range of 150cm with zero bit-error rate and sub-1nJ/bit energy efficiency.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85077851850
U2 - 10.1109/EMBC.2019.8857045
DO - 10.1109/EMBC.2019.8857045
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 31946757
AN - SCOPUS:85077851850
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
SP - 4036
EP - 4039
BT - 2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2019
Y2 - 23 July 2019 through 27 July 2019
ER -