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Selective policies for efficient state retention in transiently-powered systems

Selective policies for efficient state retention in transiently-powered systems
Selective policies for efficient state retention in transiently-powered systems
Energy harvesting offers the potential for embedded systems to operate without batteries. However, harvesting has been traditionally coupled with large energy buffers such as supercapacitors to mitigate the effect of the source variability. An emerging class of transiently-powered sensing systems enable computation to be sustained during intermittent supply, without using any additional energy storage. To deal with the intermittent nature of the input source, the system state (e.g. registers and RAM) is saved to Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) before a power failure, and restored when the power supply recovers. Existing approaches save the entire state of the system upon power failure, but this is energy and time consuming. In this poster, novel selective policies for efficiently retaining state are explored, which exploit properties of different NVM technologies.
Verykios, Theodoros D.
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Balsamo, Domenico
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Merrett, Geoff
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Verykios, Theodoros D.
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Balsamo, Domenico
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Merrett, Geoff
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Verykios, Theodoros D., Balsamo, Domenico and Merrett, Geoff (2017) Selective policies for efficient state retention in transiently-powered systems. ARM Research Summit 2017, Robinson College, Cambridge, United Kingdom. 11 - 13 Sep 2017.

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Abstract

Energy harvesting offers the potential for embedded systems to operate without batteries. However, harvesting has been traditionally coupled with large energy buffers such as supercapacitors to mitigate the effect of the source variability. An emerging class of transiently-powered sensing systems enable computation to be sustained during intermittent supply, without using any additional energy storage. To deal with the intermittent nature of the input source, the system state (e.g. registers and RAM) is saved to Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) before a power failure, and restored when the power supply recovers. Existing approaches save the entire state of the system upon power failure, but this is energy and time consuming. In this poster, novel selective policies for efficiently retaining state are explored, which exploit properties of different NVM technologies.

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Published date: 2017
Venue - Dates: ARM Research Summit 2017, Robinson College, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2017-09-11 - 2017-09-13

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Local EPrints ID: 414182
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/414182
PURE UUID: cc566e8d-c3bf-4560-9622-5f58dae23fff
ORCID for Geoff Merrett: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4980-3894

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Date deposited: 18 Sep 2017 16:31
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:46

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Author: Theodoros D. Verykios
Author: Domenico Balsamo
Author: Geoff Merrett ORCID iD

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