QUICKRECALL: A HW/SW approach for computing across power cycles in Transiently Powered Computers

ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Jayakumar, Hrishikesh ^a   Raha, Arnab ^a   Lee, Woo Suk ^a   Raghunathan, Vijay ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Embedded systems; Energy harvesting; Ferroelectric RAM; Low power design; Nonvolatile memory; Transiently powered computers

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; ENERGY HARVESTING; ENERGY UTILIZATION; FERROELECTRIC RAM; FERROELECTRICITY; FLASH MEMORY; NONVOLATILE STORAGE; STATIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE;

APPLICATION LEVEL; CHECKPOINTING TECHNIQUES; EMERGING NON-VOLATILE MEMORY TECHNOLOGY; EXTERNAL SOURCES; LOW-POWER DESIGN; NON-VOLATILE MEMORY; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PROGRAM EXECUTION;

FERROELECTRIC DEVICES;

EID: 84938686258     PISSN: 15504832     EISSN: 15504840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2700249     Document Type: Article

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