CSEM - Press Release
CSEM introduces a low power RF SoC with an integrated DSP processor
CSEM has developed a unique System-on-Chip (SoC) tailored for portable wireless communication products including an integrated DSP processor and opti-mized power management to maximize battery life .
Embedded wireless systems such as Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and Body Area Networks (BAN) require miniaturized integrated solutions with minimized energy consumption for maximum autonomy with reduced-size batteries. While battery life is partly driven by the radio transmission, it is also highly dependent on sensor data acquisition and associated local processing. Efficient local digital signal proc-essing (DSP) would allow compression of the sensor information and thereby reduction of the energy consumption associated to the transmission of the resulting information. Unfortunately the RF SoCs available today do not have the required computing power, while external DSPs are not optimized for ultra-low power consumption.
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