Phillip Stanley-Marbell
Foundations of Embedded Systems
Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
http://physcomp.eng.cam.ac.uk
Topic 15: Quantifying Power, Energy, Performance, and Noise
(~35 minutes)
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Intended Learning Outcomes for this Topic
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Quantify power dissipation, heat, performance, and noise in embedded systems
By the end of this topic, you will be able to:
Identify the key sources of power dissipation in an embedded system
Design more power-, performance-, and error-efficient embedded systems
Recall the analytic relationships governing power and performance in CMOS circuits
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“You can only analyze the data you
have. Be strategic about what to
gather and how to store it.”
— Marie Skłodowska Curie.