@inproceedings{764aafc0dac341ea8b09eacad39db575,
title = "A sensor system on chip for wireless microsystems",
abstract = "Recent years have seen the rapid development of microsensor technology, system on chip design, wireless technology and ubiquitous computing. When assembled into a complex microsystem the technologies become powerful tools in medical diagnostics, environmental monitoring and personal connectivity. In this paper we describe the demonstration of a silicon chip that has all the attributes required of a microsystem for use in these applications. The design methodology we have employed is a variant of the system on chip approach whereby many intellectual property blocks are integrated at a high level in the design flow. Our intellectual property blocks include the analogue sensor instrumentation for temperature and pH, a data multiplexing and conversion module, a digital platform based around an 8-bit microcontroller, data encoding for spread-spectrum wireless transmission and a RF section requiring very few off-chip components. The chip has been fully evaluated and tested by connection to external sensors. Each block has well defined interfaces so that they can be easily reused in future designs targeted to different applications.",
keywords = "Microsystems, Sensors, System-on-chip",
author = "L. Wang and N. Aydin and A. Astaras and M. Ahmadian and Hammond, {P. A.} and Tang, {T. B.} and E. Johannessen and T. Arslan and Beaumont, {S. P.} and Flynn, {B. W.} and Murray, {A. F.} and Cooper, {J. M.} and Cumming, {D. R.S.}",
year = "2006",
language = "English",
isbn = "0780393902",
series = "Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems",
pages = "855--858",
booktitle = "ISCAS 2006",
note = "ISCAS 2006: 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems ; Conference date: 21-05-2006 Through 24-05-2006",
}