System level synthesis for ultra low-power wireless sensor nodes

Proceedings - 13th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design: Architectures, Methods and Tools, DSD 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 493-500

  Pasha, Muhammad Adeel ^a   Derrien, Steven ^a   Sentieys, Olivier ^b  

^a CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU   (France)

^b INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Execution model; Hardware specialization; Low power micro architecture; WSN

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; COMPLETE SYSTEM; EXECUTION MODEL; HARDWARE PLATFORM; LOW POWER; MICROTASKS; NEW APPLICATIONS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; POWER GATINGS; POWER SAVINGS; SYSTEM LEVEL SYNTHESIS; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE; WSN;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; DESIGN; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HARDWARE; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; SENSORS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

SENSOR NODES;

EID: 78649880901     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DSD.2010.88     Document Type: Conference Paper

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