A Multi-Nodes Human Body Communication Sensor Network Control Processor

Author

Choi, Sungdae ; Song, Seong-Jun ; Sohn, Kyomin ; Kim, Hyejung ; Kim, Jooyoung ; Cho, Namjun ; Woo, Jeong-Ho ; Yoo, Jerald ; Yoo, Hoi-Jun

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Daejeon

fYear

2006

Firstpage

109

Lastpage

112

Abstract

This paper presents a low-power body sensor network (BSN) control processor for human body communication (HBC) with the performance of 254 nodes management. The proposed `instantaneous program execution with external program counter´ scheme provides up to 10-MIPS performance only when it is needed, and the `TCAM-based period scheduler´ manages 254 HBC nodes with 21.6-muW power consumption. They are verified by the implementation of the BSN controller and shows 254 nodes management with 4.2-MIPS performance

Keywords

counters; microprocessor chips; wireless sensor networks; 21.6 muW; TCAM-based period scheduler; external program counter; instantaneous program execution; low-power body sensor network control processor; multinodes human body communication; Biomedical monitoring; Body sensor networks; Communication system control; Control systems; Energy consumption; Humans; Medical services; Power system management; Process control; Sensor systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 2006. CICC '06. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0075-9

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0076-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CICC.2006.321001

Filename

4114920