Managing the power consumption of ICs is an increasingly difficult challenge, because each new generation of portable device includes expanded features and demands longer battery lives.

Non-mainstream technologies can offer advantages over more commonly used approaches, but usually at some additional cost (otherwise they’d probably be mainstream). The additional cost could be in ...

Two companies that exhibited at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, CA, in April have similar objectives but for different technologies. Coventor, a vendor of CAD and analysis tools for ...