An energy efficient backup scheme with low inrush current for nonvolatile SRAM in energy harvesting sensor nodes
DATE(2015)
摘要
In modern energy harvesting sensor nodes, nonvolatile SRAM (nvSRAM) has been widely investigated as a promising on-chip memory architecture because of its zero standby power, resilience to power failures, and fast read/write operations. However, conventional approaches transfer all data from SRAM into NVM during the backup process. Thus, large on-chip energy storage capacitors are normally required. In addition, high peak inrush current is generated instantaneously, which has a negative impact on energy efficiency and circuit reliability. To mitigate these problems, we propose a novel holistic backup flow, which consists of a partial backup process and a run-time pre-writeback scheme for nvSRAM based caches. A statistics based dead-block predictor is employed to achieve a fast and low power partial backup process. We also present an adaptive pre-writeback point allocation strategy to further reduce the backup load. Simulation results show that, with our proposed backup scheme, energy storage capacitance is reduced by 34% and inrush current is reduced by 54% on average compared to the conventional full backup scheme.
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clock domain crossing,energy harvesting,stability,niobium,hardware,statistical analysis,accuracy,observability,power optimization,energy conservation,sequential analysis,nonvolatile memory,power analysis
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