Enabling the Internet of Things : from integrated circuits to integrated systems

• Other Authors: Alioto, Massimo (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Internet of things.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319514826; 9783319514802
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This book offers the first comprehensive view on integrated circuit and system design for the Internet of Things (IoT), and in particular for the tiny nodes at its edge. The authors provide a fresh perspective on how the IoT will evolve based on recent and foreseeable trends in the semiconductor ind...

Table of Contents:

• Preface; Contents; About the Editor; 1: IoT: Bird's Eye View, Megatrends and Perspectives; 1.1 The Internet of Things: Context and Overview; 1.2 Brief Review of IoT Applications; 1.2.1 Considerations on the IoT Market Volume; 1.2.2 Summary of Current and Prospective Applications of the IoT; 1.3 Requirements of IoT Nodes; 1.3.1 Physical Constraints; 1.3.2 Interaction with the External World; 1.3.3 On-Board Capabilities of IoT Nodes; 1.3.4 User Constraints; 1.4 Looking at the Past: IoT as Natural Outcome of Technological Trends; 1.5 Looking at the Present: Typical Specifications of IoT Nodes.
• 1.5.1 Architecture of IoT Nodes1.5.2 Typical Specifications of Commercial IoT Nodes; 1.6 Present and Future Challenges in Chips for IoT Nodes: Energy Efficiency; 1.6.1 The Wireless Power Issue and the Communication-Computation Tradeoff; 1.6.2 Opportunities to Achieve Highly Energy-Efficient Processing; 1.7 Present and Future Challenges in Chips for IoT Nodes: Security; 1.7.1 Security Challenges in IoT Nodes; 1.7.2 Opportunities to Address Security Challenges on the IoT Node Side: Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and PUF-Enhanc ... ; 1.8 Present and Future Challenges in IoT Nodes: Cost.
• 1.9 Looking at the Future: IoT Market towards the End of Mooreś Law and Related Trends1.9.1 Perspectives on the Growth of the IoT; 1.9.2 Perspectives on the Impact of the IoT on the Semiconductor Industry Structure; 1.10 Looking at the Future: Convergence of IoT and Other Social Megatrends; References; 2: IoT Nodes: System-Level View; 2.1 Architecture of IoT Nodes; 2.2 Requirements for IoT Nodes; 2.2.1 Power; 2.2.2 Cost; 2.2.3 Interoperability; 2.2.4 Security; 2.2.4.1 Wireless Network Threats; 2.2.4.2 Countermeasures; 2.3 Power-Related Challenges and Design Tradeoffs.
• 2.3.1 Node Availability and Duty-Cycled Operation2.3.2 Activity Profile and Power Modes; 2.4 Cost-Related Challenges and Design Tradeoffs; 2.4.1 Impact of Power on Cost of IoT Node and Concentrator; 2.4.2 Impact of Protocol on Cost; 2.5 Pairing and Security; 2.5.1 Pairing, Registration, and Installation of IoT Nodes; 2.5.2 Impact of Security on Power; 2.5.3 Impact of Security, Pairing and Installation on Cost; 2.6 Battery Lifetime and Examples; 2.7 Global System Power Optimization; 2.8 Perspectives and Trends; References; 3: Ultra-Low-Power Digital Architectures for the Internet of Things.
• 3.1 Definitions and Motivations3.2 Ultra-Low-Power Microcontroller Architectures; 3.2.1 Power Management; 3.2.2 IO Architecture; 3.2.3 Data Processing; 3.2.4 Non-volatile Memories; 3.2.5 A Step Forward: Near-Threshold MCU Architectures; 3.2.6 Compensation of Process and Environmental Variations in Near-Threshold; 3.3 From Single Core to Multi Core; 3.3.1 Energy Benefits and Challenges for Parallel ULP Processors; 3.3.2 Memory Hierarchy for Parallel ULP Processors; 3.3.3 SPMs in the Near-Threshold Region; 3.3.4 Architecture of Memory Subsystem for Parallel ULP Processors.