Most seasoned embedded designers are aware that many of the techniques listed in Part 1 can be addressed in the operating system instead of having the design team “reinvent the wheel” with each new ...

Need to do some real fine power consumption measurements? [Gero Müller] was in that exact situation, and wasn’t happy with the expensive off-the-shelf tools for doing the job. Thus, he built his own.

Designers frequently turn to advanced power reduction techniques such as power shutoff (PSO) and multi-supply-voltage (MSV) architectures to help reach power consumption targets in advanced technology ...

Of all the metrics we commonly discuss at ExtremeTech, we'd argue TDP (Thermal Design Power) is easily the worst. If clock speed, core counts, IPC, and memory bandwidth are imperfect methods of ...