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

fYear

2009

fDate

23-26 Jan. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.2009.5395793

Filename

5395793