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The optimization of a Power Management Network (PMNet): it is no longer about PMIC or embedded PMU efficiency on Watts, but now, about the waste of energy for the whole SoC in mW for IoT. IoT is all about wireless communication, which demands dealing with two major noise issues: the ripple loop with the HF-RF, […]

Expectations of long battery life for ever more feature-packed applications require ultra low-power optimization to reduce overall power consumption. Reaching the low-power consumption target for your SoC implies: To turn on/off different functions through clock gating and power-gating techniques for implementing power domains To manage the transitions between modes of these power domains This previously

Portable devices, like Wearables or Smart devices, spend most of their time (> 98%) in deep-sleep/Hibernate mode. It thus is crucial to minimize the energy drawn by the always-operating functions, i.e. the always-on domain, in order to extend battery lifetime. Indeed, even if the always-on logic represents usually a small part of the SoC, its

Dolphin Integration rolls-out its new generation of pure-logic Audio CODECs, representing THE cost-effective solution for advanced processes such as 28 nm and 16 nm. Targeting a silicon area as low as 0.06 mm2 at 28 nm for the sCODi-N1-DS.01, using SESAME uHD standard cells, a new prowess has been achieved for meeting market challenges. Contact

For SoCs supplied by Lithium-Ion or Alkaline batteries, the actual voltage ranges from 4.4 V in their life, down to 2.0 V over time. They empower IoT devices, which are most of the time put in sleep mode in order to extend their battery life, requiring ultra low voltage supplies for their Always-on and retention

In order to meet the long battery-life requirements in the growing market of IoT devices, energy saving becomes a paramount concern, specifically the reduction of static power consumption when devices spend up to 99.9 % of the time in an inactive mode. The RISC-351 Zephyr-RR is an energy efficient 32-bit microcontroller core that enables achieving ultra-low

Many fabless companies compete for the attractive market of IoT, questing after the most innovative products and design flows to combine performance and power savings. While it is common to optimize the different loads (power domains), it is worth noting that a significant amount of power can be wasted in an inappropriate assembly of voltage

IoT and wearable devices have added to the challenge of reduction of BoM cost and silicon area that of changing the principles of voltage regulators to the point that their efficiency is no longer the major criteria. Embedding features such as the Power Management Network (PMNet) in a SoC demands going further in the quest