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ONiO.zero: ultra-low-power wireless MCU using energy harvesting technology

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Re: ONiO.zero: ultra-low-power wireless MCU using energy harvesting technology

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Post by wallacoloo »

The combination of a mask rom and reprogrammable flash on the same product surprised me. Why would you want a customizable mask rom if you’ve already got 8x or more of flash? Is it a power consideration: are mask roms lower-power to read from?

Re: ONiO.zero: ultra-low-power wireless MCU using energy harvesting technology

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Post by peterloron »

spzb wrote: post #2

"Product under development". Might be a complete pipe dream.

Functioning RF power harvesting MCUs have been demonstrated for a number of years now. Obviously there are challenges when the state-of-the-art is pushed forward, but the claims don't seem far fetched.

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Post by spzb »

crtlaltdel wrote: post #3
spzb wrote: post #2

"Product under development". Might be a complete pipe dream.

I worked on a line of wireless energy harvesting based occupancy sensors. It's doable.

Doable and commercially available aren’t the same thing though

Re: ONiO.zero: ultra-low-power wireless MCU using energy harvesting technology

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Post by baybal2 »

ricardobeat wrote: post #6

Seeing as they hail from Norway, is it a spin-off of Nordic?

They are ex-Nordic cadres. You can note, they keep their own key tech cadres incommunicado :). Unlike business people, they have not a single bit of their contact information listed on their page.
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