A 40 nA/source energy harvesting power converter for multiple and heterogeneous sources

Abstract

This paper presents a fully autonomous integrated circuit for power conversion from multiple and heterogeneous energy harvesting transducers. Five input channel are dedicated to vibrational harvesting and exploiting multi-frequency operations. Additional four input channels are dedicated to manage DC sources. An independent MPPT is applied on each channel. A relevant feature of the design is the use of specific nano-power design techniques which reduce the converter quiescent consumption down to 40 nA/source and still keep energy conversion efficiency up to 82.8%. Only few external components are required: an external capacitor for energy storage, a single inductor and four capacitors for MPPT on DC sources.