Paper Info
Title
A 3us wake-up time nonvolatile processor based on ferroelectric flip-flops
Abstract
Nonvolatile processors offer a number of desirable properties including instant on/off, zero standby power and resilience to power failures. This paper presents a fabricated nonvolatile processor based on ferroelectric flip-flops. These flipflops are used in a distributed fashion and are able to maintain system states without any power supply indefinitely. An efficient controller is employed to achieve parallel reads and writes to the flip-flops. A reconfigurable voltage detection system is designed for automatic system backup during power failures. Measurement results show that this nonvolatile processor can operate continuously even under power failures occurring at 20 KHz. It can backup system states within 7μs and restore them within 3 μs. Such capabilities will provide a new level of support to chip-level fine-grained power management and energy harvesting applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/ESSCIRC.2012.6341281
ESSCIRC
Keywords
Field
DocType
power failure resilience,system states,fabricated nonvolatile processor,time 7 mus,reconfigurable voltage detection system,time 3 mus,automatic system backup,frequency 20 khz,wake-up time nonvolatile processor,parallel writes,energy harvesting,parallel reads,zero standby power,ferroelectric flip-flop,flip-flops,ferroelectric devices,chip-level fine-grained power management,registers,nonvolatile memory,capacitors
Power management,Control theory,Capacitor,Standby power,Computer science,FLOPS,Energy harvesting,Electronic engineering,Non-volatile memory,Computer hardware,Backup
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
null
null
1930-8833 E-ISBN : 978-1-4673-2211-9
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-2211-9
84
3.48
References 
Authors
2
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wang Yiqun122617.63
Yongpan Liu2105684.55
Shuangchen Li363636.82
Daming Zhang416810.58
Bo Zhao51069.25
Mei-Fang Chiang619611.72
Yanxin Yan7915.50
Baiko Sai81259.72
Huazhong Yang92239214.90