| Vol. 4, No. 1, May 2007- Art. 3 |
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| Pico Radio: from Vision to Reality |
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by
M. Sheets, B. Otis, H. Qin, N. Pletcher, F. Burghardt, J.
Ammer, T. Karalar, P. Monat, Y. Cao, D. Markovic, A. Vladimirescu,
J. Rabaey, Department of EECS, University of California, Berkeley;
S. Cervini, STMicroelectronics
Copyright
Copyright © STMicroelectronics, University of California
- Berkeley, 2007 |
| | | Abstract
The vision of ubiquitous, dense, heterogeneous, ad-hoc Wireless
Sensor Networks (WSNs) can only become a reality through the combined
efforts of system miniaturization and power/cost minimization. In
turn, these efforts open up a variety of interrelated issues, including
protocol stack design, energy scavenging, cost/precision tradeoff
of components, and low-power CMOS design. At BWRC all of these issues
have been addressed in a harmonized way, and a WSN node (Quark),
incorporating the outcome of multidisciplinary research, has been
designed. This article presents an overview of the current state
of the Quark node. STMicroelectronics has manufactured many of the
chips developed at BWRC under the Pico Radio project. |
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