Wanted for the Internet of Things: Ant-Sized Computers

MIT Technology Review ^ | May 29, 2013 | Tom Simonite

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If the Internet is to reach everywhere—from the pills you swallow to the shoes on your feet—then computers will need to get a whole lot smaller

Freescale will start offering the KL02 along with some slightly larger microcontrollers, all with Wi-Fi integrated, later this year.

redistributive chip packaging --- has been used for some years in defense systems

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This is really the first attempt I have seen to bring the same type of mixed RF/Processing power the Government has had access to to the general engineering public.

The ARM Cortex M0 is a rather powerful 32 bit microcontroller and combined with RF abilities in a diminutive package will open up a new world for designers.

Too bad we don't have the 350' dish NRO satellites to pick up signals from these little beasties. :-)

They will be integrating miniscule Faraday cages to shield the flash noise from the RF sections... otherwise the receiver section would be jammed with hash noise.