Paper Info
Title
Ambient energy harvesting nonvolatile processors: from circuit to system
Abstract
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 energy harvesters bring performance and reliability challenges to traditional processors. Nonvolatile processors are promising to solve such a problem due to their advantage of zero leakage and efficient backup and restore operations. To optimize the nonvolatile processor design, this paper proposes new metrics of nonvolatile processors to consider energy harvesting factors for the first time. Furthermore, we explore the nonvolatile processor design from circuit to system level. A prototype of energy harvesting nonvolatile processor is set up and experimental results show that the proposed performance metric meets the measured results by less than 6.27% average errors. Finally, the energy consumption of nonvolatile processor is analyzed under different benchmarks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2744769.2747910
DAC
Keywords
Field
DocType
Nonvolatile Processor, Energy Harvesting, Design Metrics
Leakage (electronics),Computer science,Performance metric,Energy harvesting,Processor design,Computer hardware,Energy consumption,Backup,Embedded system,System level
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0738-100X
32
1.21
References 
Authors
31
12
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yongpan Liu1105684.55
Zewei Li2512.70
Hehe Li3544.79
Wang Yiqun422617.63
Xueqing Li532826.98
Kaisheng Ma629524.02
Shuangchen Li763636.82
Meng-Fan Chang845945.63
John Sampson9758.43
Yuan Xie106430407.00
Jiwu Shu1170972.71
Huazhong Yang122239214.90