Hardware Design
Description: This Energy Management Unit (EMU) board is based on the BQ25505 harvester chip and the TPS62740 buck converter to implement the main principles of EMU-based batteryless systems, namely voltage and current decoupling between transducers and application circuits.
Related Publications:
Gomez A, Sigrist L, Magno M, Benini L, Thiele L. Dynamic Energy Burst Scaling for Transiently Powered Systems. In Proceedings of Conference on Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE). 2016. EDA Consortium.
Gomez A, Sigrist L, Schalch T, Benini L, Thiele L. Wearable, Energy-Opportunistic Vision Sensing for Walking Speed Estimation. In Proceedings of Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS). 2017.
Gomez A, Sigrist L, Schalch T, Benini L, Thiele L. Efficient, Long-Term Logging of Rich Data Sensors using Transient Sensor Nodes.
Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems. 2018. ACM
Anagnostou P, Gomez A, Hager PA, Fatemi H, Pineda de Gyvez J, Thiele L, Benini L. Torpor: A Power-Aware HW Scheduler for Energy Harvesting IoT SoCs. In Proceedings of Symposium on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation (PATMOS). 2018. IEEE.
Anagnostou P, Gomez A, Hager PA, Fatemi H, PinedadeGyvez J, Thiele L, Benini L. Energy and power awareness in hardware schedulers for energy harvesting IoT SoCs. Integration. 2019. Elsevier.
Sigrist L, Ahmed R, Gomez A, Thiele L. Harvesting-Aware Optimal Communication Scheme for Infrastructure-Less Sensing. Transactions on Internet of Things. 2020. ACM.
Github: Altium hardware files.