Abstract: A temperature sensor is provided. The temperature sensor comprises: an inductor-capacitor (LC) oscillator configured; and a look-up table stored in a memory, wherein the look-up table contains a set of frequencies as a function of ambient temperature values, wherein when the LC oscillator is calibrated to a frequency from amongst the set of frequencies, the respective ambient temperature as stored in the look-up table is retrieved.

Abstract: A Internet of Things (IoT) tag for measuring transmitted force applied on the IoT tag, including a substrate, a force sensor integrated on the substrate, and a sensing circuit integrated on the substrate and configured to output a digital word measurement in response to an applied force on the force sensor.

Abstract: An LC oscillator is provided. The LC oscillator includes a single layer inductor disposed within a single layer inlay, wherein the single layer inductor is configured in a spiral pattern within the layer of the inlay, wherein an integrated circuit is mounted on the single layer inlay; and a capacitor included in the integrated circuit, wherein the capacitor is connected to the single layer inductor.

Abstract: An energy-aware system is provided. The system includes an energy harvester adapted to supply harvested energy as an output for storage at an energy storage; and a scheduler, the scheduler being made up of, at least in part, hardware of the energy-aware system, the scheduler operable to schedule execution of operations performed by the energy-aware system, wherein the scheduler is configured to: determine if a current voltage level at the energy storage is higher than a start voltage level; and cause initiation of execution of at least a portion one of the operations when the start voltage of the one of the operations levels is lower than or equal to the current voltage level.

Abstract: A system and method for analyzing power usage of an energy-aware computing system. A method includes monitoring executed machine code on a line-by-line basis; monitoring power consumption of each component of the energy-aware computing system simultaneous to the machine code monitoring; determining at least one routine executed by the energy-aware computing system based on the monitored executed machine code, wherein the at least one routine is a portion of machine code that performs a specific task within a larger set of instructions for the energy-aware computing system; and mapping the power consumption for each determined routine.

Abstract: According to the disclosed embodiments, an on-die capacitor utilized in energy-harvest based circuits is provided. In the disclosed design, the harvester is coupled to the on-die capacitor, thus there is no need to provide power interfaces and semi-conductor devices external to the IC. The disclosed design of the on-die capacitor would reduce the overall size and cost of the IC.

Abstract: A low-energy communication system includes at least one antenna; an energy harvester coupled to the at least one antenna and adapted to harvest energy from over-the-air signals; a first capacitor for storing the harvested energy; a system on chip (SoC) for allowing at least reception and transmission of wireless signals using a low-energy communication protocol; and wherein the energy harvester, the first capacitor, the SoC, are integrated in a semiconductor die, the die is placed on a substrate; and wherein the at least one antenna is included in the substrate.

Abstract: A system and method for method for testing an energy harvesting tag, comprising: transmitting a harvesting signal to an energy harvesting tag at time T1; receiving a response signal from the energy harvesting tag at time T2; determining a capacitor charging time of the energy harvesting tag as a difference between T2 and T1; and assigning a pass value to the energy harvesting tag when the capacitor charging time is less than a predetermined threshold amount.

Abstract: An LC oscillator is provided. The LC oscillator includes a single layer inductor disposed within a single layer inlay, wherein the single layer inductor is configured in a spiral pattern within the layer of the inlay, wherein an integrated circuit is mounted on the single layer inlay; and a capacitor included in the integrated circuit, wherein the capacitor is connected to the single layer inductor.

Abstract: A system and method extracting insights from sensed data are provided. The method includes receiving at least one data packet from at least one IoT tag, extracting at least one parameter from the at least one received data packet, where the parameter is a measure of the at least one IoT tag, identifying patterns from the at least one extracted parameter, and determining an insight based on the identified patterns.

Abstract: An energy-aware system is provided. The system includes an energy harvester adapted to supply harvested energy as an output for storage at an energy storage; and a scheduler, the scheduler being made up of, at least in part, hardware of the energy-aware system, the scheduler operable to schedule execution of operations performed by the energy-aware system, wherein the scheduler is configured to: determine if a current voltage level at the energy storage is higher than a start voltage level; and cause initiation of execution of at least a portion one of the operations when the start voltage of the one of the operations levels is lower than or equal to the current voltage level.

Abstract: A Internet of Things (loT) tag for measuring transmitted force applied on the loT tag, including a substrate, a force sensor integrated on the substrate, and a sensing circuit integrated on the substrate and configured to output a digital word measurement in response to an applied force on the force sensor.

Abstract: An energy-aware system, and method thereof are provided. The energy-aware system includes a microcontroller; an energy storage; a plurality of execution functions integrated in a system on chip (SoC); and a scheduler configured to schedule execution of operations based on available energy at the energy storage and energy requires to complete each of the operations.

Abstract: According to the disclosed embodiments, an on-die capacitor utilized in energy-harvest based circuits is provided. In the disclosed design, the harvester is coupled to the on-die capacitor, thus there is no need to provide power interfaces and semi-conductor devices external to the IC. The disclosed design of the on-die capacitor would reduce the overall size and cost of the IC.

Abstract: A system and method for method for testing an energy harvesting tag, comprising: transmitting a harvesting signal to an energy harvesting tag at time T1; receiving a response signal from the energy harvesting tag at time T2; determining a capacitor charging time of the energy harvesting tag as a difference between T2 and T1; and assigning a pass value to the energy harvesting tag when the capacitor charging time is less than a predetermined threshold amount.

Abstract: A low-energy communication system includes at least one antenna; an energy harvester coupled to the at least one antenna and adapted to harvest energy from over-the-air signals; a first capacitor for storing the harvested energy; a system on chip (SoC) for allowing at least reception and transmission of wireless signals using a low-energy communication protocol; and wherein the energy harvester, the first capacitor, the SoC, are integrated in a semiconductor die, the die is placed on a substrate; and wherein the at least one antenna is included in the substrate.

Abstract: A system and method for analyzing power usage of an energy-aware computing system. A method includes monitoring executed machine code on a line-by-line basis; monitoring power consumption of each component of the energy-aware computing system simultaneous to the machine code monitoring; determining at least one routine executed by the energy-aware computing system based on the monitored executed machine code, wherein the at least one routine is a portion of machine code that performs a specific task within a larger set of instructions for the energy-aware computing system; and mapping the power consumption for each determined routine.

Abstract: An energy-aware system, and method thereof are provided. The energy-aware system includes a microcontroller; an energy storage; a plurality of execution functions integrated in a system on chip (SoC); and a scheduler configured to schedule execution of operations based on available energy at the energy storage and energy requires to complete each of the operations.

Abstract: A method for accelerating execution of read operations in a distributed interconnect peripheral bus, the distributed interconnect peripheral bus is coupled to a host controller being connected to a universal serial bus (USB) device. The method comprises synchronizing on at least one ring assigned to the USB device; pre-fetching transfer request blocks (TRBs) maintained in the at least one ring, wherein the TRBs are saved in a host memory; saving the pre-fetched TRBs in an internal cache memory; upon reception of a TRB read request from the host controller, serving the request by transferring the requested TRB from the internal cache memory to the host controller; and sending a TRB read completion message to the host controller.

Abstract: A method for accelerating execution of read operations in a distributed interconnect peripheral bus is provided. The method comprises generating a first number of speculative read requests addressed to an address space related to a last read request served on the bus; sending the speculative read requests to a root component connected to the bus; receiving a second number of read completion messages from the root component of the bus; and sending a read completion message out of the received read completion messages component to the endpoint component only if the read completion message is respective of a real read request or a valid speculative read request out of the speculative read requests, wherein a real read request is issued by the endpoint component.