Saturday, September 22, 2007

Single Chip Wireless Sensor

ChipSensors, an Irish start-up fabless semiconductor company, has developed a wireless sensor that is contained within a single chip. The chip includes fully integrated signal conditioning, microcontroller, memory and RF transceiver functions, while the surface of the chip can sense information about the environment, such as light, temperature, humidity or gases.

This is a big step forward towards miniaturizing wireless sensor nodes, ultimately driving towards true (still somewhat fictional) "smart dust".

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