voltage is 5.0 volts. As one would
expect, the USB10 is capable of
performing digital I/O operations and is
endowed with 16K of program Flash, 512 bytes EEPROM,
and 512 bytes of SRAM.
I’ve never seen a power meter on a nest of a colony of
polistes exclamans. However, applying a voltage to the
intricate paper art of the polistes exclamans is not at all like
putting the juice to a piece of specialized silicon. Although
the USB10 is the “nest,” it consumes a bit of power due to
the AVR that pumps its blood. Like the Wasp it serves, the
USB10 consumes power relative to the work it is being
asked to do. Current consumption of the USB10 ranges
from 8 to 25 mA which is dependent on the clock rate and
active internal peripherals.
FIGURE 2. Although the USB10
Smart AVR USB processor is primarily
tasked with supporting Wasps, the
USB10 processor can stand alone and
do some serious data processing of its
very own.
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