Reconfigurable hardware in wearable computing nodes

Proceedings - International Symposium on Wearable Computers, ISWC

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 215-222

  Plessl, Christian ^a   Enzler, Rolf ^a   Walder, Herbert ^a   Beutel, Jan ^a   Platzner, Marco ^a   Thiele, Lothar ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Batteries; Decoding; Energy consumption; Hardware; Humans; Mobile computing; Operating systems; Prototypes; Runtime environment; Wearable computers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DECODING; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HARDWARE; MOBILE COMPUTING; SOLAR CELLS; WEARABLE COMPUTERS; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

HUMANS; LOW ENERGY CONSUMPTION; MOBILE ENVIRONMENTS; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS; PROTOTYPES; RECONFIGURABLE MODULE; RUNTIME ENVIRONMENTS; WEARABLE COMPUTING;

RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE;

EID: 33746148018     PISSN: 15504816     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISWC.2002.1167250     Document Type: Conference Paper

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