What are designers worried about?
Everyone talks about "low power," but what do they really mean
by that term? Why do we care about power, and what do we want
to do about it? The answers vary greatly from one application to
another. In some cases, the concern is maximizing battery life; in
others, it's fitting into a cost-effective package, or reducing heat, or
reducing the energy consumption of server farms. Dynamic power
is the greater concern in some SoC designs, while leakage power |