A 25MHz 7μW/MHz ultra-low-voltage microcontroller SoC in 65nm LP/GP CMOS for low-carbon wireless sensor nodes

Digest of Technical Papers - IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference

Volumn 55, Issue , 2012, Pages 490-491

  Bol, David ^a   De Vos, Julien ^a   Hocquet, Cédric ^a   Botman, François ^a   Durvaux, François ^a   Boyd, Sarah ^b   Flandre, Denis ^a   Legat, Jean Didier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b PE International   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6T-SRAM; ADAPTIVE VOLTAGE SCALING; AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE; BITCELL; CLOCK TREE; CMOS CHIPS; CMOS PROCESSS; CONVERTER DESIGN; DIE AREA; DUAL-CORE; EMBODIED ENERGY; HIGH-DENSITY; INSTRUCTION CACHES; INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT); LOW POWER; LOW-CARBON; MOSFETS; ON CHIPS; PROGRAM MEMORY; SLEEP MODE; SLEEP TRANSISTORS; ULTRA-LOW POWER; ULTRA-LOW-VOLTAGE; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DC-DC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; MICROCONTROLLERS; TRANSISTORS;

MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS;

EID: 84860681254     PISSN: 01936530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC.2012.6177104     Document Type: Conference Paper

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