@inproceedings{97cdcbc3d2ad40c0a4ce8388581d61e5,
title = "Holistic Energy Management with μprocessor Co-Optimization in Fully Integrated Battery-Less IoTs",
abstract = "Fully integrating on-chip power management modules and microprocessor into a system-on-a-chip (SoC) provides many benefits including lower cost and higher levels of optimization, especially for battery-less energy harvesting operation. However, previous studies have only focused on optimization of individual module, e.g. power converter. There is a lack of systematic optimization of energy efficiency considering microprocessor, regulator, and harvester. This paper performs a holistic study on power efficiency of the whole energy harvesting system including solar cells, on-chip voltage regulators and microprocessors. An optimal scheduling and operation strategy is proposed for achieving the best efficiency and system level performance while avoiding local minimum as in conventional approach. We show that the minimum energy point is different from conventional approaches without a holistic view of the system. We demonstrated the study and proposed scheme using a battery-less solar energy harvesting system and a 65nm fully integrated test chip with 20% additional energy savings.",
keywords = "Low-power design, Multi-domain power/energy management, Power/energy/thermal aware architecture design",
author = "Hester, {Josiah David} and Tianyu Jia and Jie Gu",
year = "2019",
month = jan,
day = "17",
doi = "10.1109/SOCC.2018.8618523",
language = "English (US)",
series = "International System on Chip Conference",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
pages = "61--66",
editor = "Mircea Stan and Helen Li and Karan Bhatia and Ramalingam Sridhar and Massimo Alioto",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 31st IEEE International System on Chip Conference, SOCC 2018",
address = "United States",
note = "31st IEEE International System on Chip Conference, SOCC 2018 ; Conference date: 04-09-2018 Through 07-09-2018",
}