Considerations for 4-bit processing
4-bit processors are not a dead product line. In fact, in the right volumes and performing the right tasks they offer some interesting differentiation – especially in the area of energy consumption...
View ArticleEnergy Management in Power Architecture
The Power Architecture channel explores specific architectural features and trade-offs used in specifying the Power Architecture. This article highlights energy management features that were added to...
View ArticleBoosting energy efficiency – How microcontrollers need to evolve
This first of three part article identifies how 32-bit microcontrollers are evolving to compete with 8- and 16-bit microcontrollers for low energy applications.
View ArticleWhat makes an embedded design low power?
It seems that nearly everything these days is marketed as low power. Is this reasonable even though there is no definitive industry threshold that makes where low power begins/ends? As technology...
View ArticleGreen with envy: Why power debugging is changing the way we develop code
The notion of software power debugging is assisting developers to create devices based on how much power is consumed by the device and correlating this to the source code. By using statistical...
View ArticleLow Power Design Course
Last week’s Question of the Week asking “what makes an embedded design low power?” yielded readers responses that suggest that describing low power designs should focus on end-use requirements and the...
View ArticleBoosting energy efficiency – Sleeping and waking
This second of three part article looks deeper into the issues of deep-sleep modes including the time to wake-up the system.
View ArticleLow Power Design: Energy Harvesting
Energy harvesting designs are ideal for tasks that take place in locations that are difficult to deliver power, and for this reason, they usually run autonomously. Energy harvesting designs consist of...
View ArticleBoosting energy efficiency – Energy debugging
This final section of a three part article looks into the tools and challenges of energy debugging an embedded system.
View ArticleWhat is important when looking at a processor’s low power modes?
Low power operation is an increasingly important capability of embedded processors, and many processors support multiple low power modes. When you are looking at a processor’s low power modes, what do...
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