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Low-power electronics

Index Low-power electronics

Low-power electronics are electronics, such as notebook processors, that have been designed to use less electric power. [1]

75 relations: Adiabatic circuit, AMULET microprocessor, ARM architecture, Asynchronous circuit, Atmel ARM-based processors, Autonomous peripheral operation, Battery pack, Boltzmann constant, Capacitor, Carbon nanotube, Celsius, Central processing unit, Clock gating, Clock rate, CMOS, Common Power Format, Compaq Portable, Computer performance, Cool Chips (symposium), CPU core voltage, CPU power dissipation, Data organization for low power, Dynamic frequency scaling, Dynamic logic (digital electronics), Dynamic voltage scaling, EFM32, Electric battery, Electric energy consumption, Electric power, Freescale 68HC11, Glitch removal, Goodput, Green computing, Hamilton Watch Company, Inductor, Intel 8085, Intel 8088, IT energy management, Kelvin, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Liquid-crystal display, Low-voltage differential signaling, Microchip Technology, Moore's law, MOSFET, Nanometre, Notebook processor, Operand isolation, Overclocking, P5 (microarchitecture), ..., Parasitic capacitance, Performance per watt, Personal computer, Portable computer, Power gating, Power management, Pulsar (watch), RC time constant, RCA 1802, Resistor, Solar-powered watch, STM32, Subthreshold conduction, Texas Instruments, Thermal design power, Threshold voltage, TI MSP430, Toffoli gate, Transistor, Transmeta, Underclocking, Watch, WDC 65C02, Wireless mesh network, 4-bit. Expand index (25 more) »

Adiabatic circuit

Adiabatic circuits are low power circuits which use "reversible logic" to conserve energy.

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AMULET microprocessor

AMULET is a series of microprocessors implementing the ARM processor architecture.

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ARM architecture

ARM, previously Advanced RISC Machine, originally Acorn RISC Machine, is a family of reduced instruction set computing (RISC) architectures for computer processors, configured for various environments.

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Asynchronous circuit

An asynchronous circuit, or self-timed circuit, is a sequential digital logic circuit which is not governed by a clock circuit or global clock signal.

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Atmel ARM-based processors

Atmel ARM-based processors are microcontrollers and microprocessors integrated circuits, by Atmel (a subsidiary of Microchip Technology), that are based on various 32-bit ARM processor cores, with Atmel-designed peripherals and tool support.

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Autonomous peripheral operation

In computing autonomous peripheral operation is a hardware feature found in some modern microcontroller architectures to off-load certain tasks into embedded autonomous peripherals in order to minimize latencies and improve throughput in hard real-time applications as well as to save energy in ultra-low-power designs.

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Battery pack

A battery pack is a set of any number of (preferably) identical batteries or individual battery cells.

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Boltzmann constant

The Boltzmann constant, which is named after Ludwig Boltzmann, is a physical constant relating the average kinetic energy of particles in a gas with the temperature of the gas.

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Capacitor

A capacitor is a passive two-terminal electrical component that stores potential energy in an electric field.

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Carbon nanotube

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are allotropes of carbon with a cylindrical nanostructure.

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Celsius

The Celsius scale, previously known as the centigrade scale, is a temperature scale used by the International System of Units (SI).

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Central processing unit

A central processing unit (CPU) is the electronic circuitry within a computer that carries out the instructions of a computer program by performing the basic arithmetic, logical, control and input/output (I/O) operations specified by the instructions.

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Clock gating

Clock gating is a popular technique used in many synchronous circuits for reducing dynamic power dissipation.

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Clock rate

The clock rate typically refers to the frequency at which a chip like a central processing unit (CPU), one core of a multi-core processor, is running and is used as an indicator of the processor's speed.

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CMOS

Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor, abbreviated as CMOS, is a technology for constructing integrated circuits.

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Common Power Format

The Si2 Common Power Format, or CPF is a file format for specifying power-saving techniques early in the design process.

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Compaq Portable

The Compaq Portable is an early portable computer which was one of the first 100% IBM PC compatible systems.

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Computer performance

Computer performance is the amount of work accomplished by a computer system.

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Cool Chips (symposium)

Cool Chips is an international symposium which is held every year since 1998.

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CPU core voltage

The CPU core voltage (VCORE) is the power supply voltage supplied to the CPU (which is a digital circuit), GPU, or other device containing a processing core.

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CPU power dissipation

Central processing unit power dissipation or CPU power dissipation is the process in which central processing units (CPUs) consume electrical energy, and dissipate this energy in the form of heat due to the resistance in the electronic circuits.

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Data organization for low power

Memory power consumption has become one of the major concerns for embedded systems.

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Dynamic frequency scaling

Dynamic frequency scaling (also known as CPU throttling) is a technique in computer architecture whereby the frequency of a microprocessor can be automatically adjusted "on the fly" depending on the actual needs, to conserve power and reduce the amount of heat generated by the chip.

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Dynamic logic (digital electronics)

In integrated circuit design, dynamic logic (or sometimes clocked logic) is a design methodology in combinatory logic circuits, particularly those implemented in MOS technology.

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Dynamic voltage scaling

Dynamic voltage scaling is a power management technique in computer architecture, where the voltage used in a component is increased or decreased, depending upon circumstances.

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EFM32

EFM32 Gecko MCUs are a family of energy-friendly, mixed-signal 32-bit microcontroller integrated circuits from Energy Micro (now Silicon Labs) based on ARM Cortex-M CPUs, including the Cortex-M0+, Cortex-M3 and Cortex-M4.

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Electric battery

An electric battery is a device consisting of one or more electrochemical cells with external connections provided to power electrical devices such as flashlights, smartphones, and electric cars.

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Electric energy consumption

Electric energy consumption is the form of energy consumption that uses electric energy.

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Electric power

Electric power is the rate, per unit time, at which electrical energy is transferred by an electric circuit.

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Freescale 68HC11

The 68HC11 (6811 or HC11 for short) is an 8-bit microcontroller (µC) family introduced by Motorola in 1985.

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Glitch removal

Glitch removal is the elimination of glitchesunnecessary signal transitions without functionalityfrom electronic circuits.

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Goodput

In computer networks, goodput is the application-level throughput (i.e. the number of useful information bits delivered by the network to a certain destination per unit of time).

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Green computing

Green computing, green ICT as per International Federation of Global & Green ICT "IFGICT", green IT, or ICT sustainability, is the study and practice of environmentally sustainable computing or IT.

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Hamilton Watch Company

The Hamilton Watch Company is a brand of the Swatch Group, a Swiss watch company based in Bienne, Switzerland.

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Inductor

An inductor, also called a coil, choke or reactor, is a passive two-terminal electrical component that stores energy in a magnetic field when electric current flows through it.

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Intel 8085

The Intel 8085 ("eighty-eighty-five") is an 8-bit microprocessor produced by Intel and introduced in 1976.

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Intel 8088

The Intel 8088 ("eighty-eighty-eight", also called iAPX 88) microprocessor is a variant of the Intel 8086.

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IT energy management

IT energy management or Green IT as per International Federation of Global & Green ICT "IFGICT" is the analysis and management of energy demand within the Information Technology department in any organization.

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Kelvin

The Kelvin scale is an absolute thermodynamic temperature scale using as its null point absolute zero, the temperature at which all thermal motion ceases in the classical description of thermodynamics.

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Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Lancaster is a city located in South Central Pennsylvania which serves as the seat of Pennsylvania's Lancaster County and one of the oldest inland towns in the United States.

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Liquid-crystal display

A liquid-crystal display (LCD) is a flat-panel display or other electronically modulated optical device that uses the light-modulating properties of liquid crystals.

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Low-voltage differential signaling

Low-voltage differential signaling, or LVDS, also known as TIA/EIA-644, is a technical standard that specifies electrical characteristics of a differential, serial communications protocol.

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Microchip Technology

Microchip Technology is an American manufacturer of microcontroller, memory and analog semiconductors.

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Moore's law

Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years.

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MOSFET

MOSFET showing gate (G), body (B), source (S) and drain (D) terminals. The gate is separated from the body by an insulating layer (white). surface-mount packages. Operating as switches, each of these components can sustain a blocking voltage of 120nbspvolts in the ''off'' state, and can conduct a continuous current of 30 amperes in the ''on'' state, dissipating up to about 100 watts and controlling a load of over 2000 watts. A matchstick is pictured for scale. A cross-section through an nMOSFET when the gate voltage ''V''GS is below the threshold for making a conductive channel; there is little or no conduction between the terminals drain and source; the switch is off. When the gate is more positive, it attracts electrons, inducing an ''n''-type conductive channel in the substrate below the oxide, which allows electrons to flow between the ''n''-doped terminals; the switch is on. Simulation result for formation of inversion channel (electron density) and attainment of threshold voltage (IV) in a nanowire MOSFET. Note that the threshold voltage for this device lies around 0.45 V The metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET, MOS-FET, or MOS FET) is a type of field-effect transistor (FET), most commonly fabricated by the controlled oxidation of silicon.

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Nanometre

The nanometre (International spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; SI symbol: nm) or nanometer (American spelling) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one billionth (short scale) of a metre (m).

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Notebook processor

A notebook processor is a CPU optimized for notebook computers.

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Operand isolation

In electronic low power digital synchronous circuit design, operand isolation is a technique for minimizing the energy overhead associated with redundant operations by selectively blocking the propagation of switching activity through the circuit.

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Overclocking

Overclocking is configuration of computer hardware components to operate faster than certified by the original manufacturer, with "faster" specified as clock frequency in megahertz (MHz) or gigahertz (GHz).

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P5 (microarchitecture)

The first Pentium microprocessor was introduced by Intel on March 22, 1993.

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Parasitic capacitance

Parasitic capacitance, or stray capacitance is an unavoidable and usually unwanted capacitance that exists between the parts of an electronic component or circuit simply because of their proximity to each other.

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Performance per watt

In computing, performance per watt is a measure of the energy efficiency of a particular computer architecture or computer hardware.

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Personal computer

A personal computer (PC) is a multi-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and price make it feasible for individual use.

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Portable computer

A portable computer was a computer designed to be easily moved from one place to another and included a display and keyboard.

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Power gating

Power gating is a technique used in integrated circuit design to reduce power consumption, by shutting off the current to blocks of the circuit that are not in use.

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Power management

Power Management is a feature of some electrical appliances, especially copiers, computers, GPUs and computer peripherals such as monitors and printers, that turns off the power or switches the system to a low-power state when inactive.

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Pulsar (watch)

Pulsar is a brand of watch and currently a division of Seiko Watch Corporation of America (SCA).

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RC time constant

The RC time constant, also called tau, the time constant (in seconds) of an RC circuit, is equal to the product of the circuit resistance (in ohms) and the circuit capacitance (in farads), i.e. It is the time required to charge the capacitor, through the resistor, from an initial charge voltage of zero to ≈63.2 percent of the value of an applied DC voltage, or to discharge the capacitor through the same resistor to ≈36.8 percent of its initial charge voltage.

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RCA 1802

The RCA CDP1802, a 40-pin LSI integrated circuit chip (IC), implemented using COSMAC (Complementary Symmetry Monolithic Array Computer) architecture, is an 8-bit CMOS microprocessor (µP) introduced by RCA in early 1976, the company's first single-chip microprocessor.

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Resistor

A resistor is a passive two-terminal electrical component that implements electrical resistance as a circuit element.

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Solar-powered watch

A solar-powered watch or light-powered watch is a watch that is powered entirely or partly by a solar cell.

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STM32

STM32 is a family of 32-bit microcontroller integrated circuits by STMicroelectronics.

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Subthreshold conduction

Subthreshold conduction or subthreshold leakage or subthreshold drain current is the current between the source and drain of a MOSFET when the transistor is in subthreshold region, or weak-inversion region, that is, for gate-to-source voltages below the threshold voltage.

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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) is an American technology company that designs and manufactures semiconductors and various integrated circuits, which it sells to electronics designers and manufacturers globally.

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Thermal design power

The thermal design power (TDP), sometimes called thermal design point, is the maximum amount of heat generated by a computer chip or component (often the CPU or GPU) that the cooling system in a computer is designed to dissipate under any workload.

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Threshold voltage

The threshold voltage, commonly abbreviated as Vth, of a field-effect transistor (FET) is the minimum gate-to-source voltage VGS (th) that is needed to create a conducting path between the source and drain terminals.

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TI MSP430

The MSP430 is a mixed-signal microcontroller family from Texas Instruments.

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Toffoli gate

In logic circuits, the Toffoli gate (also CCNOT gate), invented by Tommaso Toffoli, is a universal reversible logic gate, which means that any reversible circuit can be constructed from Toffoli gates.

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Transistor

A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electronic signals and electrical power.

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Transmeta

Transmeta Corporation was an American fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California.

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Underclocking

Underclocking, also known as downclocking, is modifying a computer or electronic circuit's timing settings to run at a lower clock rate than is specified.

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Watch

A watch is a timepiece intended to be carried or worn by a person.

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WDC 65C02

The Western Design Center (WDC) 65C02 microprocessor is an enhanced CMOS version of the popular NMOS-based 8-bit MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor—the CMOS redesign being made by Bill Mensch in 1978.

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Wireless mesh network

A wireless mesh network (WMN) is a communications network made up of radio nodes organized in a mesh topology.

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4-bit

A group of four bits is also called a nibble and has 24.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-power_electronics

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