Design considerations for multi-radio co-existence on asynchronous processors using LAD extensions

Author

Guha, Dipnarayan ; Vivekanandarajah, Kugan ; Srikanthan, Thambipillai

Author_Institution

Center for High Performance Embedded Syst., Nanyang Technol. Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

22-24 March 2006

Firstpage

413

Lastpage

413

Abstract

Ultra-low power asynchronous processor designs for sensor networks have been proposed in recent research of the order of 17 pJ/ins for 0.6 V in a 180 nm CMOS process. All these processor designs are based on supporting only one simple radio software stack. The design optimization of such processors needs to be studied in the ultra-low power context for support of more complex radio stacks, and more so, for multi-radio co-existence. In this short research-in-progress paper, we study such a data-driven asynchronous processor for multi-radio support on the basis of length-adaptive data (LAD) word architecture extensions.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; asynchronous circuits; integrated circuit design; low-power electronics; microprocessor chips; optimisation; wireless sensor networks; 0.6 V; 180 nm; CMOS process; LAD; data-driven asynchronous processor; length-adaptive data; multi radio coexistence; optimization; radio software stack; sensor network design; ultra low power; word architecture extension; CMOS process; CMOS technology; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Design optimization; Electronic mail; Embedded system; Process design; Protocols; Sensor systems; LAD word; asynchronous processor; low power;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Sciences and Systems, 2006 40th Annual Conference on

Conference_Location

Princeton, NJ

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0349-9

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0350-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CISS.2006.286502

Filename

4067843