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Cerebellum: Design of a Programmable Smart-Peripheral for the Ariane Core

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Introduction

With the growth of smart sensors being part of everyone’s everyday life, data driven applications are acquiring more and more relevance in the electronics consumer market. Smartwatches for fitness tracking, camera for security and multimedia entertaining as well as biomedical devices as ECG and EEG wearable devices for health care applications are just few of these examples. Typically, the data streams coming from sensors are processed on servers in the cloud. This requires the data to be sensed by a physical device driven by a microcontroller, possibly pre-processed and eventually sent to the network wirelessly (as using Bluetooth low power WiFi radios) where the packet goes through router and switches until it finally arrives to the server in the cloud which will process it and possibly give feedbacks to the users or to the microcontroller for closed-loop applications. As these smart-sensors are usually battery-powered, they are designed to be energy efficient. Most of the power is spent in transmitting the data from the radio to the server, therefore minimizing the transmitted bandwidth towards the servers does not only help to minimize the traffic and congestions, but it also helps the smart-sensors to live longer.

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