Energy Harvesting Challenges for Future Ultra-Low Power Micro Controllers

Horst Diewald is the world-wide Chief Architect of the MSP430 core, with responsibilities in system and product definition. In his WW role, Horst's main focus is on the future evolution of the MSP430 architecture, the "ultra-low-power" and analog features.

 

During his career at TI, Horst developed the architecture of the MSP430 with a team of engineers. He defined the CPU core, wake-up and interrupt scheme, bus architecture and peripheral system to optimize ease-of-use, high performance at lowest current consumption, and system cost of the MSP430. He holds the basic patent of the low-power scheme, and is co-inventor of the basic patent of the low-power and fast clock scheme which enables "burst-mode" concepts. He also holds a patent for the integrated FLL oscillator concept, among others.

 

He was elected Member Group Technical Staff in 1991, Senior Member of the Technical Staff in 2000, and Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in 2003

 

Horst is affectionately known within TI as 'The Godfather of MSP430".

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