March 2009
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
17h 24m
English
Every design involves trade-offs, but few are more difficult than performance vs. power in portable designs. The management of energy consumption is the greatest challenge facing designers of high-performance, feature-rich handsets that work from a tiny battery. Fortunately a lot of smart people have been working on the problem over the last few years in particular. In the next two chapters Findlay Shearer nicely distills and presents the results of those efforts for his readers.“Low Power Design Techniques, Design Methodology and Tools” focuses primarily on SoC design, though many of the techniques also apply at the overall system level. Shearer goes into some detail about ...