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Emerging Technologies of Computation. Montek Singh COMP790-084 Sep 27, 2011. Today: Energy Harvesting Systems. Case studies CEA - LETI (power management) Univ. of Newcastle (power management) Imperial College (biosensors) Next time: UCLA (solar) Caltech (acoustic)
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Emerging Technologies of Computation Montek Singh COMP790-084 Sep 27, 2011
Today: Energy Harvesting Systems • Case studies • CEA-LETI (power management) • Univ. of Newcastle (power management) • Imperial College (biosensors) • Next time: • UCLA (solar) • Caltech (acoustic) • Challenges and Benefits • Open questions
CEA-LETI case study • Managy • power management subsystem • harvested power vs. stored power • low/medium/high power modes • In center is digital power controller • multiple harvestors • multiple sensors • multiple processing “loads”
CEA-LETI case study • Convert analog events (energy level change, sensor input)… • … to asynchronous digital event for controller
Newcastle case study • Background: switched capacitor power converters • reconfigure topology to convert voltages
Newcastle case study • Propose capacitor bank with an intelligent switching controller
Newcastle case study • Piezoelectric harvesters • Experiments with different voltage converters
Imperial College case study • Biosensors/harvesters • directly attached to human body