Miniaturized Power Management that Disappears and Merges with the Environment and Systems

The need for an efficient power management solution has never been more critical across virtually all electronic devices and systems from low power to high power, smartphones to data centers, battery-powered components to renewable-energy-powered grids, and from stationary systems to aircraft. Particularly for ultra-low power systems such as untethered sensors and IoT systems, the key challenge is to maintain high delivery efficiency while satisfying increasingly demanding input/output requirements, space constraints, reliability, and cost, simultaneously. Aiming to address this grand and increasingly difficult challenge, the speaker will present multiple approaches centered around physical, architectural, and functional integration of advanced power management units with the systems that allow them to efficiently and essentially disappear/merge with the environment. Design examples and results from the iPower3Es group at UCSD and state-of-the-arts will also be covered as demonstration.
Speaker(s): Hanh-Phuc Le,
Room: Grand Ballroom F, Bldg: Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, California, United States, 95054