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Multiple-Input Harvesting Power Management Unit With Enhanced Boosting Scheme for IoT Applications.
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IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics . May2020, Vol. 67 Issue 5, p3662-3672. 11p. - Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Powering Internet of Things sensor nodes in the expanding application platforms requires a highly efficient power management unit (PMU), with adaptive power consumption based on harvester energy availability and load conditions. To provide continuous reliable operation, this paper presents a PMU, which is able to extract energy from four energy sources, while providing independent maximum power point tracking (MPPT) for each harvester. With MPPT being achieved independent of voltage boosting, a novel step-up ratio technique is implemented for enhancing charging time and efficiency by 33.5% (3.5×). A fully digital technique to detect harvester energy flow is designed to scale down system power during energy drought periods, while being able to cold-start from inputs as low as 0.4 V. The stored energy is used by load through a hybrid analog–digital linear dropout regulator (LDO) or further boosted for pulsed battery charging. The chip is fabricated in the 180-nm process with an area of 0.46 $\text{mm}^{2}$ and achieves a maximum power delivery of 2.6 mW and a maximum end-to-end efficiency of 70% at 40 $\mu \text{W}$. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02780046
- Volume :
- 67
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 141599608
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2019.2920607