Ultra-constrained sensor platform interfacing

Pat Pannuto, Yoonmyung Lee, Kempke Ben, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw, Prabal Dutta

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Abstract

In this work we expose the challenges of interfacing both conventional and new systems with an extremely resource constrained platform. We find that even when attempts are made to utilize an industry standard protocol (I2C), necessary protocol modifications for ultra-low power design means that interfacing remains non-trivial. We present a functional 0.4mm × 0.8mm ARM Cortex M0 with 3KB of RAM, 24 GPIOs, and an ultra-low power I2C interface. This chip is part of the Michigan Micro Mote (M3) project, which is designed to build a complete software and hardware platform for general purpose sensing at the millimeter scale. We demo an I2C interface circuit allowing commercial hardware to program and interact with the chip and present the beginning of the millimeter scale sensing revolution.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIPSN'12 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
Pages147-148
Number of pages2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event11th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensing Networks, IPSN'12 - Beijing, China
Duration: 16 Apr 201220 Apr 2012

Publication series

NameIPSN'12 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks

Conference

Conference11th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensing Networks, IPSN'12
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period16/04/1220/04/12

Keywords

  • Bus protocols
  • Low power
  • Smart dust

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