Ambient energy harvesting nonvolatile processors: From circuit to system

Y Liu, Z Li, H Li, Y Wang, X Li, K Ma, S Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Energy harvesting is gaining more and more attentions due to its characteristics of ultra-long
operation time without maintenance. However, frequent unpredictable power failures from …

Nonvolatile processors: Why is it trending?

F Su, K Ma, X Li, T Wu, Y Liu… - Design, Automation & …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Energy harvesting has become a promising solution to power up Internet-of-Things (IoT)
devices. In this scenario, the constrained power budget and frequent absence of ambient …

Architecture exploration for ambient energy harvesting nonvolatile processors

K Ma, Y Zheng, S Li, K Swaminathan… - 2015 IEEE 21st …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Energy harvesting has been widely investigated as a promising method of providing power
for ultra-low-power applications. Such energy sources include solar energy, radio-frequency …

Spendthrift: Machine learning based resource and frequency scaling for ambient energy harvesting nonvolatile processors

K Ma, X Li, SR Srinivasa, Y Liu… - 2017 22nd Asia and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Batteryless energy harvesting systems face a twofold challenge in converting incoming
energy into forward progress. Not only must such systems contend with inherently weak and …

Nonvolatile processor architecture exploration for energy-harvesting applications

K Ma, X Li, S Li, Y Liu, JJ Sampson, Y Xie… - IEEE Micro, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article provides insights into the design of nonvolatile processors (NVPs) for batteryless
applications in the Internet of Things (IoT), in which ambient energy-harvesting techniques …

Software assisted non-volatile register reduction for energy harvesting based cyber-physical system

M Zhao, Q Li, M Xie, Y Liu, J Hu… - 2015 Design, Automation …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wearable devices are important components as information collector in many cyber-physical
systems. Energy harvesting instead of battery is a better power source for these wearable …

Nonvolatile processor architectures: Efficient, reliable progress with unstable power

K Ma, X Li, K Swaminathan, Y Zheng, S Li, Y Liu… - IEEE Micro, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nonvolatile processors (NVPs) have integrated nonvolatile memory to preserve task-
intermediate on-chip state during power emergencies. NVPs hide data backup and …

Fixing the broken time machine: Consistency-aware checkpointing for energy harvesting powered non-volatile processor

M Xie, M Zhao, C Pan, J Hu, Y Liu, CJ Xue - Proceedings of the 52nd …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Energy harvesting has become a favorable alternative to batteries for wearable embedded
systems since it is more environmental and user friendly. However, harvested energy is …

A Ferroelectric Nonvolatile Processor with 46 s System-Level Wake-up Time and 14 s Sleep Time for Energy Harvesting Applications

F Su, Y Liu, Y Wang, H Yang - IEEE Transactions on Circuits …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nonvolatile processor (NVP) attracts more and more attentions for its immunity to power loss
in energy harvesting scenarios. The overall performance of an NVP is determined by its …

Checkpoint aware hybrid cache architecture for NV processor in energy harvesting powered systems

M Xie, M Zhao, C Pan, H Li, Y Liu, Y Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Energy harvesting is one of the most promising battery alternatives to power future
generation embedded systems in Internet of Things (IoT). However, energy harvesting …