Wednesday, February 23, 2011

The processor all in a 1 mm ³

Scientists at the University of Michigan presented what they call the processor all-in-one at the millimeter scale. The all-in-One is that it has a microprocessor, a sensor, a memory, a battery, a solar panel to supply it with electricity and a radio module receive and transmit data. It is a processor which in principle is sufficient unto itself.

It is intended to serve as a sensor and placed into the eyes of patients suffering from glaucoma to measure intraocular pressure and monitor the progression of the disease. The researchers plan to run, medicine can insert dozens, even hundreds of small sensors in the human body to monitor various aspects.

Requesting less than a cubic millimeter, it consumes an average of 5.3 NW and wakes up every 15 minutes to take his measurements and transmit the results. It is half past one in the sunlight or ten hours of artificial light to charge its batteries.

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