Out of Thin Air: Energy Scavenging and the Path to Ultralow-Voltage Operation
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
In recent years there has been much interest in and progress toward the design of energy efficiency systems. The ultimate vision is to operate electronic circuits from ambient energy (see Figure 1). Gene Frantz, a pioneer in signal processing architectures and systems, has driven the vision of ultralow-power electronics. To continue scaling the energy per operation, Gene has proposed a number of concepts, from the use of new signaling and computing schemes to ultralow-voltage (ULV) design, multicore signal processors, and new computational substrates. He has also outlined the critical components of an energy-harvesting system, including the notion of an energy buffer. This article addresses one critical aspect of ultralow-power electronics: ULV design, along with the required support structures.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it