T5b
Power Management Techniques for Low-Power Edge and IoT Devices
9:30 - 17:30
ROOM FALLA
CHAIRS
Gaël Pillonnet (CEA-Leti, Grenoble, FR)
ABSTRACT
Low-power edge and IoT devices are increasingly expected to operate autonomously in energy-constrained environments, while maintaining reliable sensing, computation, and communication over long lifetimes. This tutorial provides a circuit- and system-level overview of power management techniques that enable such devices, with emphasis on two representative application domains. The first part focuses on energy harvesting for battery-assisted or battery-less IoT sensor nodes, particularly piezoelectric energy harvesting. Key challenges include extracting energy efficiently from weak and highly variable transducers, achieving cold start and maximum power point operation, managing intermittent power availability, and delivering regulated supply voltages to ultra-low-power loads. The second part addresses inductive wireless power transfer for biomedical implants, where power delivery must meet stringent requirements on size, efficiency, safety, and reliability. Topics include resonant inductive links, AC–DC rectification, voltage regulation, load-adaptive power management, and system constraints imposed by implantable applications.
PROGRAM
14:00 – 15:30
Power Management Techniques for Low-Power Edge and IoT Devices
Sijun Du (TU Delft, NL)
​15:30 – 16:00
Coffee break
BIOSKETCHES
Sijun Du
Prof. Sijun Du received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K., in January 2018. He was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Department of EECS at UC Berkeley, from 2018 to 2020. In 2020, he joined the Department of Microelectronics, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Delft, The Netherlands, where he is currently an associate professor. His current research is focused on energy-efficient integrated circuits and systems, including power management integrated circuits (PMIC), energy harvesting ICs, wireless power transfer ICs, and DC/DC converter ICs, which are used in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) wireless sensors, wearable electronics, and biomedical devices. He serves as an TPC member, of ISSCC and ESSERC, ISSCC SRP committee member since 2023, IEEE ICECS subcommittee chair in 2022 and 2024, and IEEE ISCAS track chair in 2025 and 2026. He is an IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer.
