CHAPTER 1
Introduction
Over the past decade, countless multimedia functionalities have been added to mobile devices. For example, front and back video cameras are common features in today’s cellular phones. Further, there has been a race to capture, process, and display ever-higher resolution video, making this an area that vendors emphasize and where they actively seek market differentiation. These multimedia applications need fast processing capabilities, but those capabilities come at the expense of increased power consumption. The battery life of mobile devices has become a crucial factor, whereas any advances in battery capacity only partly ...
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