On-chip power and radio - page 1

WIZ chips can be made in various configurations, with a very tiny chip containing only a few hundred WIZes to a very large chip with a few million WIZes.

One niche is "sensor motes", which would use a very tiny WIZ chip, self-powered and self-connected (by radio or other means) to the network. There is a many-billion-dollar marketplace waiting for these.

The processor can be made today. But the radio and power generator technologies are not here yet. Many companies and university labs are researching and developing both of these technologies, and the near future looks very promising. Internal power and radio feel "just around the bend".

Right now I am shooting for a small board (or SOC) with three chips on it, perhaps vertically stacked. First, a full custom VLSI WIZ chip about 1mm square. Not a billion transistor behemoth, but much smaller, with perhaps a few thousand WIZes instead of millions. This is doable right now. Secondly, a power generator chip, chosen from what is commercially available at the time, and thirdly a radio chip, likewise chosen from what is commercially available.