Scaling self-timed systems powered by mechanical vibration energy harvesting

ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Wenck, Justin ^a   Collier, Jamie ^a   Siebert, Jeff ^a   Amirtharajah, Rajeevan ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

AC power supply; DRAM; Energy harvesting; Energy aware systems; Integrated circuits; Low power design; Power on reset; Scaling; Self timed

Indexed keywords

AC POWER SUPPLIES; AC POWER SUPPLY; ENERGY-AWARE SYSTEMS; LOW-POWER DESIGN; SELF-TIMED;

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSORS; DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; FIR FILTERS; HARVESTING; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SENSORS; TIME SHARING SYSTEMS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 77953746711     PISSN: 15504832     EISSN: 15504840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1773814.1773816     Document Type: Article

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