Next Generation Micro-power Systems
Anubhuti Khare1, Manish Saxena2, Heena A Jain3
1Dr. Anubhuti Khare, Reader, Department of Electronics and Communication, University Institute of Technology, Rajeev Gandhi Technical University, Bhopal, (M.P.), India.
2Manish Saxena, Head of Electronics and Communication Department, Bansal Institute of Science and Technology Bhopal (M.P.), India.
3Heena A Jain , Mtech (Digital Communication), Bansal Institute of Science and Technology Bhopal (M.P), India.
Manuscript received on October 06, 2011. | Revised Manuscript received on October 12, 2011. | Manuscript published on October 30, 2011 . | PP: 25-29 | Volume-1 Issue-1, October 2011. | Retrieval Number: A0103101111/2011©BEIESP
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Abstract: Emerging micro-systems such as portable and implantable medical electronics, wireless micro-sensors and next-generation portable multimedia devices demand a dramatic reduction in energy consumption. The ultimate goal is to power these devices using energy harvesting techniques such as vibration-to-electric conversion or through wireless power transmission. A major opportunity to reduce the energy consumption of digital circuits is to scale supply voltages to 0.5V and below. The challenges associated with ultra-low-voltage design will be presented. These include variation-aware design for logic and SRAM circuits, efficient DC-DC converters for ultra-low-voltage structuring to support extreme parallelism. This paper also addresses micro-power analog and RF circuits, which require the use of application specific structures and highly digital variation-aware architectures.
Keywords: Micro-System, SRAM, RF Circuit