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    Matilde Cerbai
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    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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    Paolo Motto Ros
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    Politecnico di Torino
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    Danilo Demarchi
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    Politecnico di Torino
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    Diego Ghezzi
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    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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    Sandro Carrara
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    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
    Abstract

    Over the years, several clock and data recovery architectures have been proposed for wireless Amplitude Shift Keying (ASK) transmitted signals. The state-of-the-art includes synchronous architectures mainly relied on complex phase-locked loop circuits or self-sampling systems, resulting in large area consumption. This work presents a novel CMOS architecture for Clock and Data Recovery (CDR) in ultra-miniaturised and wirelessly powered implants. The proposed CDR architecture works at 433.92 MHz and includes: an ASK-demodulator, an on-chip oscillator, a power-on-reset, a control and a recovering block operating in feedback-loop. The ASK-demodulator works for a data rate as high as 6 Mbps and a modulation index in the range of 9-30%. A novel communication protocol is presented for a separated clock and data transmission. The entire CDR architecture occupies 17x89 µm^2 and consumes 15.01 µW while operating with a clock rate of 6 Mbps.