Architectures and Synthesizers for Ultra-low Power Fast Frequency-Hopping WSN Radios

Wireless sensor networks have the potential to become the third wireless revolution after wireless voice networks in the 80s and wireless data networks in the late 90s. Unfortunately, radio power consumption is still a major bottleneck to the wide adoption of this technology. Different directions have been explored to minimize the radio consumption, but the major drawback of the proposed solutions is a reduced wireless link robustness.

The primary goal of Architectures and Synthesizers for U...