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Eternal-thing 2.0: Analog-Trojan-resilient Ripple-less Solar Harvesting System for Sustainable IoT

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Recently, harvesting natural energy is gaining more attention than other conventional approaches for sustainable IoT. System on chip power requirement for the internet of things (IoT) and generating higher voltages on chip is a massive challenge for on-chip peripherals and systems. In this article, an on-chip reliable energy-harvesting system (EHS) is designed for IoT with an inductor-free methodology. The control section monitors the computational load and the recharging of the battery/super-capacitor. An efficient maximum power point tracking algorithm is also used to avoid quiescent power consumption. The reliability of the proposed EHS is improved by using an aging tolerant ring oscillator. The effect of Trojan on the performance of energy-harvesting system is analyzed, and proper detection and mitigation mechanism is proposed. Finally, the proposed ripple mitigation techniques further improves the performance of the aging sensor. The proposed EHS is designed and simulated in CMOS 90-nm technology. The output voltage is in the range of 3–3.55 V with an input 1–1.5 V with a power throughput of 0–22 μW. The EHS consumes power under the ultra-low-power requirements of IoT smart nodes.

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    cover image ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems
    ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems  Volume 19, Issue 2
    April 2023
    214 pages
    ISSN:1550-4832
    EISSN:1550-4840
    DOI:10.1145/3587888
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    Published: 28 March 2023
    Online AM: 12 December 2022
    Accepted: 30 November 2022
    Revised: 18 August 2022
    Received: 10 September 2021
    Published in JETC Volume 19, Issue 2

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    1. Aging tolerant
    2. analog Trojan
    3. ripple-less
    4. sustainable IoT
    5. energy-harvesting system (EHS)
    6. maximum power point tracking (MPPT)
    7. charge pump (CP)

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