The tiny chip at the center of this penny could be used to control biomedical implants.
Credit: Mingoo Seok
New publications, experiments and breakthroughs in information technology--and what they mean.
Low-Power Chip
An efficient new chip could be used for implantable medical sensors
Source: "The Phoenix Processor: a 30pW Platform for Sensor Applications"
Mingoo Seok et al.
IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, June 2008
Results: Researchers at the University of Michigan have designed a chip less than one millimeter square that uses about a 10th as much energy as the most energy-efficient chips on the market.
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