Human++: Emerging technology for body area networks

IFIP VLSI-SoIC 2006 - IFIP WG 10.5 International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration and System-on-Chip

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 175-180

  Gyselinckx, Bert ^a   Vullers, Ruud ^a   Van Hoof, Chris ^b   Ryckaert, Julien ^b   Yazicioglu, Refet Firat ^b   Fiorini, Paolo ^b   Leonov, Vladimir ^b  

^a HOLST CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^b IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATION; LSI CIRCUITS; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; TRANSDUCERS;

BODY AREA NETWORK (BAN); EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; ENERGY SCAVENGING; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LOW-POWER DESIGNS; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; SYSTEM ON CHIP (SOCS); THREE DIMENSIONAL (3-D) INTEGRATION; ULTRA LOW POWER (ULP); VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI);

RESEARCH;

EID: 46249130738     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLSISOC.2006.313229     Document Type: Conference Paper

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