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Improving energy efficiency in ultra low-power devices
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By
Raúl Martín Rello
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Power Management DesignLine
(09/10/2009 11:01 AM EDT)
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The goal for ultra-low power devices is never-ending. This article explains a technique to improve their energy efficiency, by means of sysclock tick reconfiguration during runtime.
The reconfiguration of the sysclock timer allows the device to be in its lowest power mode and awakes the CPU only when necessary, avoiding useless periodical awakenings to increase the sysclock tick counter.
The entire article can be read here.
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