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The paper introduces a new hardware platform for wireless sensor networks built around a Flash FPGA. The most important feature Flash FPGAs offer is their duty cycling support; they can wake up from sleep in one microsecond with now current spike and they preserve their configuration as well as the application state. Moreover, the new node provides much better performance than microcontoller-based nodes can. The price to pay is the increased complexity of application development. Most software components can be implemented in C and run on a soft processor core inside the FPGA, but the critical components need to be realized directly on the fabric using VHDL.
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Völgyesi, P., Sallai, J., Szilvási, S., Dutta, P., Lédeczi, Á. (2010). Marmot: A Novel Low-Power Platform for WSNs. In: Zavoral, F., Yaghob, J., Pichappan, P., El-Qawasmeh, E. (eds) Networked Digital Technologies. NDT 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 88. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14306-9_28
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