Developing an ARM-based sensor platform

Author

Alea, Mark Daniel D. ; Azurin, Lei Angelique I. ; Bamba, Patrick Vincent F. ; Maramba, Marlon C. ; Santos, Evoanne D. ; Alarcon, Louis P. ; Hizon, John Richard E. ; Roque, Christian Raymund K.

Author_Institution

Microelectron. & Microprocessors Lab., Univ. of the Philippines - Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines

fYear

2013

fDate

22-25 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Issues with typical low-cost, low-power sensor nodes in System-on-Chip designs include component integration, energy efficiency and reusability. These are solved by implementing a standard communication protocol like the Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA) that allows low-power designs. An AMBA system prototype is designed, implemented, and characterized on an FPGA platform, with ARM9TDM as the processor, SRAM as memory device, and Ethernet, LCD, UART, and PS/2 as peripherals. With this base platform, other sensor node components like the transceiver, ADC and sensors can be easily integrated to obtain a completely functional node for sensor networks.

Keywords

SRAM chips; access protocols; computer interfaces; data communication equipment; field programmable gate arrays; local area networks; microcontrollers; radio transceivers; system-on-chip; AMBA; ARM-based sensor platform; ARM9TDM processor; Ethernet; FPGA platform; LCD; SRAM; UART; advanced microcontroller bus architecture; low-power designs; low-power sensor nodes; memory device; sensor networks; sensor node components; standard communication protocol; system-on-chip; transceiver; Clocks; Computer architecture; Field programmable gate arrays; Monitoring; Protocols; Random access memory; System-on-chip; AMBA; ARM; sensor platform;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON 2013 - 2013 IEEE Region 10 Conference (31194)

Conference_Location

Xi´an

ISSN

2159-3442

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2825-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.2013.6718952

Filename

6718952