Title :
Low-power microcontroller for wireless sensor networks
Author :
Singh, Digvijay ; Sai Prashanth, S. ; Kundu, Sujan ; Pal, Ajit
Author_Institution :
Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
The energy constraint in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) advocates the design and use of low power components in sensor nodes. Commercial general purpose microcontrollers are not suitable for such applications and have motivated us towards the design of a low-power microcontroller tailored for the WSN application domain. In this paper, we study the characteristics of typical WSN applications and present the design of a power-aware microcontroller using conventional design techniques. Our simulation results show significant power savings compared to other off-the-shelf microcontrollers.
Keywords :
low-power electronics; microcontrollers; power aware computing; wireless sensor networks; energy constraint; low power components; low-power microcontroller; power-aware microcontroller; sensor nodes; wireless sensor networks; Batteries; Clocks; Computer science; Design engineering; Instruction sets; Microcontrollers; Power engineering and energy; Read only memory; Thermal sensors; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
TENCON 2009 - 2009 IEEE Region 10 Conference
Conference_Location :
Singapore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4546-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4547-9
DOI :
10.1109/TENCON.2009.5395793
