Using SRAM based FPGAs for power-aware high performance wireless sensor networks

Sensors

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2667-2692

  Valverde, Juan ^a   Otero, Andres ^a   Lopez, Miguel ^a   Portilla, Jorge ^a   de la Torre, Eduardo ^a   Riesgo, Teresa ^a  

^a CENTRO DE ELECTRÓNICA INDUSTRIAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dynamic and partial reconfiguration (DPR); Energy efficiency; FPGA; Wireless sensor networks (WSNs)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859028491     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s120302667     Document Type: Article

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