RESTOP: Retaining External Peripheral State in Intermittently-Powered Sensor Systems.

ABSTRACT: Energy harvesting sensor systems typically incorporate energy buffers (e.g., rechargeable batteries and supercapacitors) to accommodate fluctuations in supply. However, the presence of these elements limits the miniaturization of devices. In recent years, researchers have proposed a new paradigm, transient computing, where systems operate directly from the energy harvesting source and allow computation to span across power cycles, without adding energy buffers. Various transient computing approaches have addressed the challenge of power intermittency by retaining the processor's state using non-volatile memory. However, no generic approach has yet been proposed to retain the state of peripherals external to the processing element. This paper proposes RESTOP, flexible middleware which retai

SUBMITTER: Rodriguez Arreola A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5795800 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature