Dr.

Thomas Sailer
Chief System Architect

AXSEM SoC: The Sub-1-GHz

Lowest-Power-Radio Platform
for the Internet of Things!

Fortronic Show
June 2014

www.axsem.com

About AXSEM
A fab-less semiconductor manufacturer
Founded in 2000
Focus on low-power high-performance
SUB-ONE-GHz radio IC and micro-controller
Worldwide Presence
Headquarters in Zrich/Switzerland
Own test factory
2.5kk/month test capacity
Privately held by
Dr. Thomas Wolff
Dr. Thomas Sailer
Monika Brogle

IOT M2M

M2M IOT IOE AI BIG DATA

M2M / IoT: intelligent everything
as the essence of survival
SOCIETY
BUSINESS

6 Billion
people,
20%
online

7.5 Billion
people,
60% online

(*EVERYTHING)
2010

2020

IOT by numbers
2014 2 Billion connected devices

2020 8 Billion connected devices

1.5 bn
Cities (Industry)
3.7 bn
Home (Consumer)

1.7 bn
Buildings
(Infrastructure)

0.4 bn
Transport
(Mobility)
0.4 bn
Body (Health)

If you look at
other predictions
50
billion

IoT - M2M
10

billion

PC, consoles, etc

2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020

Cell Phones

numbers differ, exponential growth stays !

(source: cisco, ericsson)

Lowest-Power-Radio
IOT applications

90%

10%

Lowest-power-RF
BLTE
Enocean
DASH7
DECT
KNX
NFC
Wi-Fi
Sigfox
ZigBee Wireless-MBUS
Zwave
6LoWPAN

2G, 3G, 4G
Optical Fiber
Satellite
LAN

IOT structure
Web-service/APP
Cloud service
Database

Cloud

Last Mile
vs.
Last 100m

WLAN

Device
Device
Device
Device

Gateway

BT-LE

Device
Device
Device
Device

Lowest-Power-Radio

Device
Device
Device
Device

Device
Device
Device
Device

RF IOT Standards

A typical Lowest-Power-Radio
energy budget
MCU & Radio
Standby
Receive
Transmit
@
Reaction time
0.1s
10 kbps
14 dBm TX
power
32 byte packet
Pattern match

100
10
1
0.1
0.01
0.001
0.0001

Stdby [mW]
TX [mW]
RX [mW]

How does it look at the extreme

100 kbps
100
10
1
0.1
0.01
0.001
0.0001

1kbps
100
10
1
0.1
0.01
0.001
0.0001

RSSI

Stdby [mW]
TX [mW]
RX [mW]

If reaction time goes up, Standby becomes dominant

Put it into proportion

Lowest-Power-Radio vs. BT LE

This means...

30 bn new WiFi-nodes require 20-30

new nuclear power plants
It is still 1 for BT-LE and insignificant
for Lowest-Power-Radios ignoring
the production
10 years battery life, energy harvesting
or wireless charging are and option
with LPR

Ultra-wide-band vs.
Ultra-narrow-band
Ultra-wide-band
Less pressure on
frequency source

Ultra-narrow-band
Less usage of
spectral resources
Less sensitive to
interference
Less power
consumption

Both work but with the growth

The solution

AXSEM SoC
Lowest-Power-Radios
High sensitivity -140 dBm in UNB mode
UWB used only for special applications
Low RX power consumption 10 mA active
Typical A current consumption in RX WOR
50% PAE from 0 18 dBm
Performance at 1.8V supply

Which MCU?

Sensor nodes
Low power consumption
AX8052, PIC, ARM M0,
Same C development tool

Gateways
32 bit

64 bit

Conclusion

The best way to predict the future is to

create it

Dr. Thomas Sailer

Chief System Architect

Thank You for your attention!

Fortronic Show
June 2014