G24 Power, Canova Tech Announce R&D Project

G24 Power, a world leader in the design and manufacture of dye sensitized solar cells (DSSC), and Canova Tech, delivering silicon intellectual property (IP), design services and product solutions to the semiconductor industry worldwide, are entering in a funded R&D program to develop and optimize a complete and efficient power manager solution with MPPT for G24 dye sensitized solar cell, GCell.

In this collaborative framework, a new jointly developed demonstration was available at the G24 Power booth (D12) during the Energy Harvesting & Storage Europe conference and exhibition in Berlin.

The demonstration showed the efficiency of the GCell technology, the flexibility and configurability of the Canova Tech ETA IP platform, and the ultra-low power performance of the ON Semiconductor LC87F7932B fully programmable microcontroller. The ETA platform is also manufactured using ON Semiconductor’s I3T80 process technology.

GCell’s nanotechnology harnesses the visible light to provide electrical energy and is widely recognised as the closest mankind has come to replicating nature’s photosynthesis.

G24 Power entered into a funded R&D project with Canova Tech to enable the creation of applications powered by GCell to reduce or eliminate the need to use disposable batteries. In particular, the collaboration focused on providing efficient power management for instances where replacing batteries is inconvenient, costly, or dangerous.

Based on Canova Tech’s IP implemented on silicon, the ETA platform can be configured to manage any type of harvesting cell – be it thermo electric, solar, piezo or magnetic –to implement a customized, efficient and optimized solution for ultra-low power, IoT and wearable applications.

The development tool along with all documentation and datasheets are available off-the-shelf to shorten overall development time and enable highly creative concept validation for industry automation, building automation, health care and other applications.