SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING THE POWER-ON OR BOOT SEQUENCE OF AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT BASED ON POWER HARVESTING CONDITIONS
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Abstract
In some embodiments, an apparatus includes an integrated circuit such as a system on chip that operates in part from harvested power and that uses information about power harvesting conditions to alter a power-on sequence or boot sequence based on that information. In some embodiments, a method uses information about power harvesting and energy harvesting conditions to alter a power-on sequence or boot sequence.
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33 Claims
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1-7. -7. (canceled)
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8. An apparatus, comprising:
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an energy harvesting circuit; an integrated circuit (IC) operatively coupled to the energy harvesting circuit; a memory operatively coupled to the IC; and a boot override component configured to receive information associated with a harvested energy harvested by the energy harvesting circuit, the boot override component configured to, in response to a boot request for the IC and based on the information, modify an operation associated with the memory to define a modified boot sequence such that the IC executes the modified boot sequence in response to the boot request. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. An apparatus, comprising:
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an integrated circuit (IC); a memory operatively coupled to the IC; and a boot override component configured to receive information associated with an amount of energy available to the IC, the boot override component configured to, in response to a boot request for the IC and based on the information, modify an operation associated with the memory to define a modified boot sequence such that the IC executes the modified boot sequence in response to the boot request. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28)
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29. A non-transitory computer readable medium, the medium storing instructions configured to cause a boot override component to:
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receive information associated with an operation of an integrated circuit (IC); and modify, in response to a boot request for the IC and based on the information, an operation associated with a memory that is operatively coupled to the IC, the modification of the operation defining a modified boot sequence such that the IC executes the modified boot sequence in response to the boot request. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33)
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