This week our colleague Moritz Weißbrich is taking part in the MOCAST 2022 Conference in Bremen, Germany. Yesterday, he presented our paper on "A Silicon-Proof Controller System for Flexible Ultra-Low-Power Energy Harvesting Platforms".

In this paper, a heterogeneous controller system and its first-silicon ASIC implementation are presented, where the use of a programmable NanoController next to a general-purpose microcontroller enables more efficient and flexible power management strategies than typical timer-based, periodical power-up of a single microcontroller in state-of-the-art IoT devices. The first-silicon ASIC implementation of such a controller system using a 65nm UMC low-leakage process is presented and evaluated for a real home automation application intended to operate on harvested energy, i.e., electronic door lock, reducing the average power consumption of reference microcontrollers by up to 20x.

You can also watch our demonstration system on our youtube channel:
https://lnkd.in/eCwUjRS5