《Low Power Design Essential》读后笔记(一)

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chapter 1

1. power and energy consumption

analyze the different application domains from power perspective

technology trends CMOS scaling

design solutions

2. key words: power dissipation

data center needs air conditioning to remove the dissipated heat

cooling issue processors closer to the floor operate faster than the ones on the top

SoC (Systems-on-a-chip) temperature gradients

higher temperature means slower clock speed.

3. key words: emergence of mobile electronics

battery-operated device available energy is fixed

improved electrode structures, better charging technology, advanced battery system design

4. categories

“Watt nodes” $P>1W$

“Milliwatt nodes” $1mW<P<1W$

“Microwatt nodes” $P<1mW$

5. Energy scavenging

to transform the physical energy present in various sources in the environment into electrical power.

6. average power dissipation & peak power dissipation

average power dissipation: when studying heat-removal and pac