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A Matlab-LTSpice based tool is presented in this paper. It has been developed to help the designer to add Energy Harvesting (EH) capabilities to a generic electronic device that is being developed. The realized easy-to-use tool allows to quick evaluate several EH solutions at design time, contributing to considerably reduce both design time and costs because no hardware prototypes are needed. The tool is based on a set of pre-designed EH circuits covering all the main EH sources available in industrial applications (i.e. light, thermal gradients and vibrations) and drives the designer in the choice of the most suitable one accordingly with both the estimated environmental working conditions and the estimated power consumption profile of the specific electronic device that is being developed.
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MATLAB has been chosen essentially due to the variety of options offered in terms of data manipulation/visualization. Other tools or programming languages (e.g. Python) able to interface with LTSpice (or any other electronic circuits simulator) can be used.
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This research is funded by ECSEL, the Electronic Components and Systems for European Leadership Joint Undertaking under grant agreement No 826452 (Arrowhead Tools), supported by the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and by the member states. The authors thank Proff. P. Pavan and L. Selmi for the discussions and their contributions to the Arrowhead Tools project.
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Bertacchini, A., Ricci, Y. (2023). Design-Time Tool for Energy Harvesting Solutions. In: Berta, R., De Gloria, A. (eds) Applications in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and Society. ApplePies 2022. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 1036. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30333-3_6
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