Design of self-powered wireless system-on-a-chip sensor nodes for hostile environments

Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 824-827

  Barnhart, David J ^a   Vladimirova, Tanya ^a   Sweeting, Martin N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; BICMOS TECHNOLOGY; COMPUTER NETWORKS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; RADIATION HARDENING; RADIATION PROTECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SENSORS; SPACE OPTICS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

SELF-POWERED; SENSOR NODES;

SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 51749115735     PISSN: 02714310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2008.4541545     Document Type: Conference Paper

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