A 1.2&amp;#x00B5;W SIMO energy harvesting and power management unit with constant peak inductor current control achieving 83&amp;#x2013;92% efficiency across wide input and output voltages

Aatmesh Shrivastava,Sudhanshu Khanna,Yogesh K Ramadass,Benton H Calhoun,Steven Bartling

doi:10.1109/vlsic.2014.6858364

A 1.2&#x00B5;W SIMO energy harvesting and power management unit with constant peak inductor current control achieving 83&#x2013;92% efficiency across wide input and output voltages

Aatmesh Shrivastava, Sudhanshu Khanna + Show 3 more

https://doi.org/10.1109/vlsic.2014.6858364

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Publication Date: Jun 1, 2014

Citations: 27

Affiliation: Texas Instruments (United States), University of Virginia

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This paper presents a single inductor energy harvesting and power management (EHM) unit for ultra-low power (ULP) systems. The proposed circuit harvests energy from solar cells from 0.38V input voltage (Vin) and provides 4 output voltages - storage at 5V and V <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">DD</inf> s at 3.3V, 1.5V and 1.2V. A peak inductor current control scheme enables high efficiency operation across wide input and output voltage range. The IC supports maximum power point tracking, battery management, and cold starts from 0.38V Vin.

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