For a massive yet sustainable Internet-of-Things, ultra-low power management and voltage regulation are required to operate the nodes on ambient energy harvesting (EH) while delivering the required supply voltages to the sensing, computing and communication blocks. Latest related results obtained in the electronic circuits and systems (ECS) group include indoor/outdoor solar EH power management...

Ca2+ is the most widely used second messenger in cell biology and fulfills a plethora of essential cell functions. One of the most exciting findings of the last decades was the involvement of Ca2+ in the regulation of long-term cell adaptation through its ability to control gene expression. This finding provided a link between cell excitation and gene expression. In this review, we chose to foc...

Voltage is an important parameter that regulates the conductance of both intercellular and plasma membrane channels (undocked hemichannels) formed by the 21 members of the mammalian connexin gene family. Connexin channels display two forms of voltage-dependence, rectification of ionic currents and voltage-dependent gating. Ionic rectification results either from asymmetries in the distribution ...

Output voltage regulation is a primary performance objective in power electronics systems which are not supported by a stiff voltage source. In this paper, we pose an optimal voltage control problem for ac inverter systems and study the structure of the resulting feedback laws. Here, it is demonstrated that the solution to the optimal voltage regulation control problem exhibits an inner current...

The proposed CMOS Low Dropout (LDO) regulator has been designed and simulated using TSMC 0.25μ CMOS process in cadence analog design environment . This paper illustrates the design criteria and corresponding analysis relevant to LDO. The experimental result shows that, it regulates an output voltage at 3.3V from a 3.5V supply, with a minimum dropout voltage of 200mV at a maximum output current ...

Minimization of line losses and the improvement of power quality in distribution system are the most challenging problems, particularly when it is not economic to upgrade the entire feeder systems. This paper presents a new method to achieve the line loss minimum condition and improve power quality in radial and loop distribution system by using Unified Power Flow Controllers (UPFC), one of the...

Large-conductance Ca2+- and voltage-regulated K+ channels (Slo1 BK-type) are controlled by two physiological stimuli, membrane voltage and cytosolic Ca2+. Regulation by voltage is similar to that in voltage-dependent K+ channels, arising from positively charged amino acids primarily within the S4 transmembrane helices. The basis for regulation by Ca2+ remains controversial. One viewpoint sugges...

This paper presents an evaluation of an optimal DC bus voltage regulation strategy for grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) system with battery energy storage (BES). The BES is connected to the PV system DC bus using a DC/DC buck-boost converter. The converter facilitates the BES power charge/discharge to compensate for the DC bus voltage deviation during severe disturbance conditions. In this way,...

Energy shortage and environmental contamination in the present scenario has increased the use of renewable energy sources.Among the renewable energy sources the photovoltaic cells plays a significant role in meeting the energy requirements. The problem associated with the PV cells are it produces low output voltage and thus a high step-up dc dc converter is essential to boost the low voltage of...

A method of actively maintaining voltage margin in field oriented induction machine controllers is proposed. A voltage margin controller is developed that rejects dc link and load disturbances such that current regulation and field orientation is maintained. In addition, the voltage margin controller coupled with rotor flux oriented control is shown to provide maximum torque capability equivale...