Now we only need batteries that don't self-discharge within decades.
I think tadiran has such batteries.
http://www.tadiranbatteries.de/pdf/articles/20-year-battery....
New ARM-powered chip aims for battery life measured in decades
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Re: New ARM-powered chip aims for battery life measured in decades
#12I think that this just killed the one of the triumph card of PIC micro-controllers. Seriously, Microchip uC have now any interesting thing apart of a lot of embed I/O hardware inside ? ARM based uCs now are cheap, low powered and have far better IDEs and compilers...
Well...
PIC is weird. But it does the job and as the other comment said, they had a lot of models with a lot of devices (ADC, DAC, USB, fully configurable ports, etc).
Also cheap and available in "hobbyist" form factors (DIP)
Yes, you would either go to Assembly (which is harder to use than "tradicional uCs" - like 8051 family, Z80, etc), C compilers (some limited), or there was even PIC basic, heh
ARM? Write in C, "fire and forget" unless you are doing something more complicated (like audio synth - yes, I did this)
Re: New ARM-powered chip aims for battery life measured in decades
#13The chip is so low power that it can be powered off energy capture from the body, as Andreas Eieland, Atmel's Director of Product Marketing for low-power products, demonstrated at CES earlier this year. The human body generates more bio-electricity than a 120v battery, and over 25,000 BTUs of body heat. Combined with the Atmel SAM L21 32-bit ARM MCU, the machines had found... all the energy they would ever need.
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Re: New ARM-powered chip aims for battery life measured in decades
#14Would it be feasible to power this cheap of electromagnetic radiation?
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/413744/wireless-power-h...
Re: New ARM-powered chip aims for battery life measured in decades
#15The chip is so low power that it can be powered off energy capture from the body, as Andreas Eieland, Atmel's Director of Product Marketing for low-power products, demonstrated at CES earlier this year. The human body generates more bio-electricity than a 120v battery, and over 25,000 BTUs of body heat. Combined with the Atmel SAM L21 32-bit ARM MCU, the machines had found... all the energy they would ever need.
british BTU or american BTU? please use SI standard measures for those who don't happen to live in America :-)
I'm trying to figure out if you're joking or not. BTU = British Thermal Unit and is pretty much the standard measure used around the world when talking about energy use associated with heating. It's the amount of energy needed to heat one pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit, regardless of where you find yourself in the world...
Re: New ARM-powered chip aims for battery life measured in decades
#16The chip is so low power that it can be powered off energy capture from the body, as Andreas Eieland, Atmel's Director of Product Marketing for low-power products, demonstrated at CES earlier this year. The human body generates more bio-electricity than a 120v battery, and over 25,000 BTUs of body heat. Combined with the Atmel SAM L21 32-bit ARM MCU, the machines had found... all the energy they would ever need.
british BTU or american BTU? please use SI standard measures for those who don't happen to live in America :-)
He is quoting The Matrix:
The human body generates more bioelectricity than a 120-volt battery and over
25,000 BTUs of body heat. Combined with a form of fusion, the machines had
found all the energy they would ever need.Re: New ARM-powered chip aims for battery life measured in decades
#17Still waiting for clockless chips here...
Re: New ARM-powered chip aims for battery life measured in decades
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
british BTU or american BTU? please use SI standard measures for those who don't happen to live in America :-)
He is quoting The Matrix: The human body generates more bioelectricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTUs of body heat. Combined with a form of fusion, the machines had found all the energy they would ever need.
Which of course always bugged me. Not just because of what I know of biology, but the second sentence.
"Combined with a form of fusion". The thing we understand to eventually provide abundant clean unlimited electricity (okay, relatively speaking).
It's a bit like saying "The human trigger finger can exert 300 pounds per square inch of force, and perform over 500,000 foot-pounds of work. Combined with a standard-issue pistol-grip chainsaw, the Zombie-Hunting Academy had found all the weapon it would ever need."
Re: New ARM-powered chip aims for battery life measured in decades
#19The chip is so low power that it can be powered off energy capture from the body, as Andreas Eieland, Atmel's Director of Product Marketing for low-power products, demonstrated at CES earlier this year. The human body generates more bio-electricity than a 120v battery, and over 25,000 BTUs of body heat. Combined with the Atmel SAM L21 32-bit ARM MCU, the machines had found... all the energy they would ever need.
That quote is so totally non-scientific. For movies to get basic physics so terribly wrong is very sloppy.
Re: New ARM-powered chip aims for battery life measured in decades
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
He is quoting The Matrix: The human body generates more bioelectricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTUs of body heat. Combined with a form of fusion, the machines had found all the energy they would ever need.
Which of course always bugged me. Not just because of what I know of biology, but the second sentence. "Combined with a form of fusion". The thing we understand to eventually provide abundant clean unlimited electricity (okay, relatively speaking). It's a bit like saying "The human trigger finger can exert 300 pounds per square inch of force, and perform over 500,000 foot-pounds of work. Combined with a standard-issu…
From a physics point of view it is complete bull-shit.