Synthesizable Integrated Circuit and System Design for Solar Chargers

Author

Yeong-Chau Kuo ; Yung-Jie Luo ; Li-Jen Liu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Nat. Kaohsiung First Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Volume

28

Issue

9

fYear

2013

fDate

Sept. 2013

Firstpage

4260

Lastpage

4266

Abstract

In this paper, an automatic design tool for a solar energy harvesting IC and system is developed with visual basic software, and the synthesis tool employed in this approach can be used to shorten the design time to market. In addition, a smart meter system is developed to measure the solar energy harvesting system´s information with an online system. Users can thus get the proposed system´s information at any time and from anywhere. Finally, good agreement has been found between the analytic and experimental results.

Keywords

Visual BASIC; digital-analogue conversion; electronic engineering computing; energy harvesting; integrated circuit design; solar power; time to market; Visual Basic software; automatic design tool; digital-to-analog converter; online system; smart meter system; solar charger; solar energy harvesting IC; solar energy harvesting system information; synthesis tool; synthesizable integrated circuit; system design; time to market; Batteries; Computer architecture; Microcontrollers; Pulse width modulation; Solar energy; Transistors; Digital-to-analog converter (DAC); energy harvesting; pulsewidth modulation (PWM);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8993

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TPEL.2012.2222448

Filename

6320660