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Wireless personal area networks (WPANs) will be major components of the heterogeneous communication environment of the future. The devices in a WPAN must be low cost and operate for a long time from a battery. As a consequence, they pose demanding requirements on the utilized integration technology. In this paper we confront these requirements with the newly released international technology roadmap for semiconductors (ITRS-2001). Power consumption is identified as the key problem, motivating a large research effort in low power design techniques. In addition, it is pointed out that WPAN devices will consist of different technologies, requiring a better design support for mixed-technology integration.
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Engels, M. Technology Challenges in the Development of Wireless Personal Area Networks. Wireless Personal Communications 22, 319–329 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019937027328
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