Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference 1999 (ASP-DAC'99)
An Integrated Battery-Hardware Model for Portable Electronics
Wanchai, Hong Kong
January 18-January 21
ISBN: 0-7803-5012-X
Chi-Ying Tsui, HK University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Qing Wu, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
We describe an integrated model of the hardware and the battery sub-systems in battery-powered VLSI systems. We demonstrate that, under this model and for a fixed operating voltage, the battery life decreases super-linearly as the average current dissipation increases. With the aid of analyses and empirical studies, we then show that the implications of this phenomenon are far-reaching and change our perceptions about low power design techniques targeted toward battery-powered VLSI circuits.
Citation:
Massoud Pedram, Chi-Ying Tsui, Qing Wu, "An Integrated Battery-Hardware Model for Portable Electronics," asp-dac, pp.109, Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference 1999 (ASP-DAC'99), 1999