With over 5 billion products per year, Bluetooth is the most widely deployed wireless standard in the world. Plans exist to expand the Bluetooth-standard with additional frequency bands and data rates to increase the number of supported applications.
At the same time, battery lifetime needs to remain as high as possible. Current consumption can be reduced if the transmitter is nearby, or when data is being transmitted at a lower speed. In this project we will research new receiver architectures in CMOS that can be configured in each individual scenario to be as energy-efficient as possible.