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Future Trends in Power Management
CHAPTER 8
The power management spectrum covers process, design, architecture, and software and
system elements. In the short term the trend in power optimization continues toward a
holistic approach. An approach that tightly couples the hardware architecture, operating
system, middleware, and application layers to achieve both a high performance user
experience and device energy gains.
8.1 Converged Mobile Devices
Many mobile devices today are comprised primarily of discrete electronic systems with
mobile computers performing data computations, telecommunications devices providing ...