Preliminary circuits for Smart Dust

Author

Atwood, Bryan ; Warneke, Brett ; Pister, Kristofer S J

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

87

Lastpage

92

Abstract

In this paper we present a miniature system that is being designed for the Smart Dust project to test the communication link and simulate basic functionality. The system includes an optical receiver to process the incoming laser signal, digital circuits to generate a pseudorandom number sequence, a corner cube reflector (CCR) to passively transmit data to the base station, and a charge pump to generate the voltages required for the CCR. The circuits are being fabricated in a 0.25 μm twin-well 5 metal layer CMOS process and the CCR has been fabricated in the MCNC MUMPS 3 structural polysilicon layer (MEMS) process. The components are to be mounted onto a 1.4 V zinc-air hearing aid style battery and the entire system can fit into a 5.8 mm×5.8 mm×2.4 mm package

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; distributed sensors; elemental semiconductors; environmental testing; intelligent sensors; microsensors; military systems; optical receivers; sensor fusion; silicon; 0.25 micron; 1.4 V; MCNC MUMPS 3 structural polysilicon layer; MEMS; Si; Smart Dust project; base station; charge pump; communication link; corner cube reflector; distributed sensor network; functionality; incoming laser signal; optical receiver; pseudorandom number sequence; twin-well five-metal layer CMOS process; zinc-air hearing aid style battery; Base stations; Charge pumps; Circuit simulation; Circuit testing; Digital circuits; Optical receivers; Pump lasers; Signal generators; Signal processing; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mixed-Signal Design, 2000. SSMSD. 2000 Southwest Symposium on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5975-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SSMSD.2000.836452

Filename

836452