An accelerator-based wireless sensor network processor in 130nm CMOS

Embedded Systems Week 2009 - 2009 International Conference on Compilers, Architecture, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems, CASES'09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 215-221

  Hempstead, Mark ^a   Wei, Gu Yeon ^b   Brooks, David ^b  

^a ARM LTD   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerator based; Ultra low power; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION LAYERS; COMPUTING PARADIGM; DATA FILTERING; DESIGN SPACES; EMERGING APPLICATIONS; GENERAL PURPOSE; HOLISTIC APPROACH; IDLE TIME; INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION; PROCESS TECHNOLOGIES; REDUCING POWER; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; SYSTEM USE; SYSTEM-ON-CHIP; ULTRA-LOW POWER; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS SENSOR;

ACCELERATION; APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERSION; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MICROCONTROLLERS; NETWORK LAYERS; PROGRAM COMPILERS; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; ROUTING PROTOCOLS; SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 72049118780     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1629395.1629426     Document Type: Conference Paper

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