Development and Testing of an Ultra Low Power System-On-Chip (SOC) Platform for Marine Mammal Tags and Passive Acoustic Signal Processing

Abstract

The long term goal of this project is to develop and build an ultra-low power system-on-chip (SoC) that will increase the useful lifetime of animal tags for monitoring marine mammals to weeks or months and to integrate that chip into a new monitoring tag, called Nano-power Electronics MOdule (NEMO). The NEMO tag has the specific application goal of determining the response of deep diving whales to human generated acoustic events, although the tag and SoC will be programmable to support numerous other monitoring applications. The final goal is to provide fundamental research into the optimal tag partitioning between custom and off-the-shelf components, novel analog/digital co-design for acoustic event detection, and ultra-low power on-chip power and event management control to extend the lifetime of tags like NEMO as much as possible.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2014
Accession Number
ADA617628

Entities

People

  • Benton H. Calhoun
  • Brian Otis
  • David Mann

Organizations

  • University of Virginia

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Signals
  • Amplifiers
  • Animals
  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • Circuit Boards
  • Debugging
  • Detection
  • Energy Consumption
  • Energy Harvesting
  • Event Detection
  • Mammals
  • Marine Mammals
  • Power Electronics
  • Signal Processing
  • Solar Cells
  • Solar Energy
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Readers

  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.
  • Marine Mammal Biology

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems