Fully-integrated switched-capacitor voltage boost converter with digital maximum power point tracking for low-voltage energy harvesting

Abstract

Abstract This paper proposes a fully-integrated switched-capacitor voltage boost converter with a digital maximum power point tracking (MPPT) control circuit for low-voltage and low-power energy harvesting. The proposed digital MPPT control circuit converts the analog voltage information of a PV cell into digital values and extracts the maximum power regardless of the harvester conditions and load current. Measurement results demonstrated that our proposed circuit can track the maximum power point of a PV cell successfully. The maximum voltage conversion ratio of our circuit was 5.6. The proposed power management system generated a 2.58 V output voltage from a 0.46 V input voltage. The maximum power conversion efficiency was 63.6%.