Internet-of-microchips: direct radio-to-bus communication with SPI backscatter

Abstract

Energy consumption of Internet-of-Things end devices is a major constraint that limits their long-term and large-scale deployment. Conventionally, the radios and processors used in these end devices are major power consumption that drains at the level of milliwatts (mWs). However, in recent decades, backscatter communication has dramatically reduced the power consumed by the radios in end devices to microwatts (μWs), and thus the processor remains the major bottleneck for energy optimization.