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Software Engineering for Embedded Systems
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Software Engineering for Embedded Systems

by Robert Oshana
April 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1200 pages
33h 55m
English
Newnes
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Chapter 13

Optimizing Embedded Software for Power

Robert Oshana

One of the most important considerations in the product life-cycle of an embedded project is to understand and optimize the power consumption of the device. Power consumption is highly visible for hand-held devices which require battery power to be able to guarantee certain minimum usage/idle times between recharging. Other main embedded applications, such as medical equipment, test, measurement, media, and wireless base stations, are very sensitive to power as well – due to the need to manage the heat dissipation of increasingly powerful processors, power supply cost, and energy consumption cost – so the fact is that power consumption cannot be overlooked. The responsibility for ...

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ISBN: 9780124159174