UPC EETAC Bachelor's Degree in Telecommunications Systems and in Network Engineering. Bachelor's Degree in Aerospace Systems Engineering EEL

Lab9

Laboratory 10:

Low power applications, sleep mode, energy harvesting

Lab11

1. Specifications

Our goal is to save energy sleeping the microcontroller while doing nothing between acquisition and processing cycles. 

 

Fig. 1.

 

Microcontrollers and boards for low power and energy harvesting applications

This is a list of web pages and documents focusing on low-power battery-operated (or energy harvesting) circuits. Every vendor has a portfolio of microcontrollers that can be applied in this area associated with  wireless sensor networks (WSN) and Interned of Things (IoT) nodes.

Manufacturer

Products
Microchip

XLP 8-bit Development Board (DM240313)  (PIC18F87K22 / PIC16LF1947) [Power Options: AAA, CR2032, Energy Harvesting, USB, External, or 9V power supply]

Microchip XLP 16-bit Energy Harvesting Development Kit  (DV164133) developed around the PIC24F16KA102 eXtreme Low Power MCU.

PIC16F18446-XPRESS development board (user guide)
     
ST  

STM32L475VGT6. Discovery kit IoT node.

STM8L. Discovery kit with STM8L152C6 MCU.
     
Texas Instruments  

MSP430 Ultra-Low-Power Microcontrollers brochure.

MSP430G2553. MSP-EXP430G2 LaunchPad Development kit. 

Wireless connectivity.
     

Infineon (Cypress)

  

PSoC 6.  Programmable System on Chip

     
Libelium  

Waspmote.

     

 

2. Planning

Hardware

 

Software

 

3. Development and 4. testing

Hardware

 

Software

 

Topics in EMC

 

 

5. Prototyping

 

 

6. Reporting