System-Level Power Management

Author(s):  
Naehyuck Chang ◽  
Enrico Macii ◽  
Massimo Poncino ◽  
Vivek Tiwari
2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen Cai ◽  
Ryan L Harne

In recent years, great advances in understanding the opportunities for nonlinear vibration energy harvesting systems have been achieved giving attention to either the structural or electrical subsystems. Yet, a notable disconnect appears in the knowledge on optimal means to integrate nonlinear energy harvesting structures with effective nonlinear rectifying and power management circuits for practical applications. Motivated to fill this knowledge gap, this research employs impedance principles to investigate power optimization strategies for a nonlinear vibration energy harvester interfaced with a bridge rectifier and a buck-boost converter. The frequency and amplitude dependence of the internal impedance of the harvester structure challenges the conventional impedance matching concepts. Instead, a system-level optimization strategy is established and validated through simulations and experiments. Through careful studies, the means to optimize the electrical power with partial information of the electrical load is revealed and verified in comparison to the full analysis. These results suggest that future study and implementation of optimal nonlinear energy harvesting systems may find effective guidance through power flow concepts built on linear theories despite the presence of nonlinearities in structures and circuits.


Author(s):  
Enrico Macii ◽  
Vivek Tiwari ◽  
Massimo Poncino ◽  
Naehyuck Chang

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (S2) ◽  
pp. S1-S26
Author(s):  
Kanad Ghose ◽  
Dale Becker

Abstract Invited Session on HETEROGENEOUS INTEGRATION ROADMAP - Heterogeneous Integration for HPC and Data Centers. This TWG focuses on the system-level implications related to performance, power management, security, power distribution issues and others


2006 ◽  
pp. 373-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farzan Fallah ◽  
Massoud Pedram

Author(s):  
Jean-Charles Mare ◽  
Silvio Akitani

Beside the main functions related to the control and transformation of power, safety-critical electromechanical actuators require many additional functions for power routing, protection and limitation. In practice, these functions are implemented mechanically because their realization at motor drive level is not acceptable for performance and reliability reasons. Contact forces play a major role in these mechanical devices (e.g. endstop, lock, brake, torque limiter, etc.), being either functional to serve the need, or parasitic due to their alteration of performance. The virtual prototyping of such mechanical power management functions therefore requires normal and tangent forces to be modelled with the right level of realism and reduced complexity. This communication provides some proposals to be used as foundation for the system-level modelling and simulation of these types of mechanical power elements that can be found in electromechanical actuators. Special focus is given to the model architecting, decomposition and block-diagram implementation, using the example of normal contact forces. The illustrative example concerns an integrated landing gear extension/retraction electromechanical actuator which embeds free-fall and autolock features. It shows how a well implemented single model (e.g. generic normal contact force model) combined with a right model decomposition can meet various modelling needs (e.g. droppable end-stop, lock and shearable axial stop). The proposed models are made compatible for integration in a 2x1D mechanical model architecture (axial and rotational motion) developed by the authors in previous reported work.


Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaroslav Erdelyi ◽  
Dominik Macko ◽  
Katarina Jelemenska

Power estimation is one of the key aspects that can help designers create digital circuits more effectively. If a designer is able to estimate circuit parameters during the early stages of development, correct decisions can be made that can significantly shorten the design time. The early design stages are represented by modeling at the system level of abstraction. However, existing system-level power/energy estimation methods are either too complicated, or they do not consider power management when estimating power consumption, meaning they are inaccurate. Therefore, in this paper we propose a method for a more accurate system-level estimation of the dynamic energy consumption by considering the impact of power management. The SystemC description of a power-managed system and the simulation results (in the form of the value change dump (VCD)) are inputs to the estimation method. The proposed method is based on an activity profile using the modified Hamming distance computation. The method is especially useful for the exploration of alternative power-management strategies, and it helps the designer to select the most efficient strategy.


2006 ◽  
Vol 86 (8) ◽  
pp. 1792-1803 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Bougard ◽  
Sofie Pollin ◽  
Antoine Dejonghe ◽  
Francky Catthoor ◽  
Wim Dehaene

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