A complete system for single solar-cell fully on-chip micro-scale energy harvesting is proposed. To maximize the extracted output power over the entire illumination range, optimal frequency operation and reconfigurable adaptive switch sizing techniques have been discussed. A fully digital illumination change detection block and a reconfigurable VCO/CCO (Voltage/Current Controlled Oscillator) scheme have been introduced. The proposed system has been designed in UMC 0.18-μm CMOS technology and the techniques used here offer an efficiency improvement up to 10% in both low, high illumination ranges compared to the conventional system and achieve a peak system efficiency of 67%. © 2016 IEEE.