Low-power oscillator for passive radio frequency identification transponders
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Passive radio frequency identification tags extract energy from incoming electromagnetic waves to power up their internal circuitry. Such a limited source of power demands efficient circuits to minimise the power consumption. In this work a new technique is proposed to design a low-power ring oscillator in which the voltage swing of internal nodes are constrained to lower the dynamic power consumption. The proposed power reduction technique can be employed for RFID tags operating over different frequency bands from low frequency (LF) to microwave. A low-power oscillator operating in the medium-frequency range (6–16 MHz) for applications such as electronic article surveillance and item management has been implemented in this work. Post-layout simulation results using STMicroelectronics CMOS 65 nm technology indicate that the proposed method can reduce the power consumption by more than 25%.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it