@inproceedings{c6a00b9c9ed84434997a95e94a3f2b4d,
title = "An efficient power management unit for μwatt thermoelectric generators",
abstract = "This paper presents an efficient power management unit (PMU) that supports μWatt load range for TEG-based applications. The PMU consists of an inductor-based DC-DC converter that boosts a small TEG voltage and followed by two switched capacitor-based buck converters which are used to drive a μWatt-SoC. The PMU generates a regulated 1.1V and 0.6V output voltages. Pulse frequency modulation scheme is utilized to regulate the output voltages. SPICE simulation results in 65nm CMOS technology show that the maximum end-to-end efficiency of the PMU is 68% at an output power of 62μWatt. The PMU occupies an area of less than 0.9mm2. The switched capacitor circuit enables the usage of dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) that helps the PMU to operate in ultra-low power modes.",
author = "Mohammad Alhawari and Dima Kilani and Baker Mohammad and Hani Saleh and Mohammed Ismail",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.; 1st International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Research, ICTRC 2015 ; Conference date: 17-05-2015 Through 19-05-2015",
year = "2015",
month = jul,
day = "14",
doi = "10.1109/ICTRC.2015.7156443",
language = "British English",
series = "2015 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Research, ICTRC 2015",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "148--151",
booktitle = "2015 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Research, ICTRC 2015",
address = "United States",
}