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April 26, 2006

Power Management for Mobile Devices

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Conclusion

The forces in the marketplace do not rest. Wireless mobile devices and other battery operated portable systems must aggressively add new functionality and applications to meet ever growing user needs. Popular styles and new industrial designs will change the form factors that mobile devices come in, driving chips toward higher integration and smaller process geometries. Newer standards in wireless radio communication coupled with user demands will see numerous new devices in the marketplace. Some of them even will be reconfigurable in narute, such as Software Defined Radio (SDR). Surely power management will become a more complex problem for such devices. A holistic system-wide approach to the problem will be the only way to solve it. Thankfully people at every facets of the industry and academia are concerned about power consumption issues and constantly working towards this. Right from modulation algorithm designers to user interface designers everyone is aware of saving last drop of power while delivering the best performance. This focus will bring in new architectures and solutions for power management in mobile devices sooner in future.

Previous Page | 1 Introduction | 2 Silicon Techniques for Power Management | 3 Software Techniques for Power Management | 4 Unified Power Management Architecture | 5 Conclusion
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