In this paper, we propose mm-Waves for Near-Field IoT, ultralow
power transceivers. With small footprint and no external
components, the transceivers could be integrated with the sensors,
with the wireless sensor nodes organized in a Master-Slave,
asymmetrical network. With low complexity and high energy
efficiency, the slave nodes benefit from a minimalist design
approach with integrated antennas and integrated resonators for
absolute frequency accuracy. Two designs are presented. The first
is a K-band, super-regenerative, logarithmic-mode, OOK receiver
achieving a peak energy efficiency of 200pJ/bit at 4Mb/s and a
BER of 10-3. With 800μW peak and 8μW average power, the
sensitivity of the receiver is -60dBm for the same data and biterror
rates. Realized in a 65nm CMOS process from GF, the
active area of the receiver is 740x670μm2. The second design is a
100Kb/s, V-band transceiver with integrated antenna. It achieves
20pJ/bit energy efficiency (Rx mode) and it provides means for
1/f noise mitigation.