NAPS Project

This project aims at addressing the increasing demand for low-power and low-cost radio data links. We are seeing an exponential growth in the number of devices requiring short-range wireless connectivity where the energy budget is extremely restricted. In this context, a reduction in complexity is the most direct way to achieve power and cost reduction. Thus, the superregenerative (SR) receiver, with an intrinsically simple architecture, is a feasible choice that must be taken into account in different applications. In this project, we will investigate the ability of the SR receiver to cope with different kinds of modulations and some new application areas will be addressed. As a second goal, we will integrate some SR designs and, finally, we will build an SR transceiver with an IEEE-802.15.4-compatible interface at the network level.