SoC issues for RF smart dust

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1177-1195

  Cook, Ben W ^a,b   Lanzisera, Steven ^a,b   Pister, Kristofer S J ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Low power circuits; Low power RF; Smart dust; Wireless mesh networks; Wireless sensor networks; Wireless sensors

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; MEMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RADIO SYSTEMS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

LOW-POWER CIRCUITS; LOW-POWER RF; SMART DUST; WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS; WIRELESS SENSORS;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 33947387064     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2006.873620     Document Type: Article

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