25. November 2010 by admin.

Get it at http://www.eetimes.com/electrical-engineers/education-training/tech-papers/4208967/Why-NanoAmps-Matter-in-Low-Power-Design

Abstract: The demand for extremely low-power technologies was born from necessity; starting with the fabrication process and moving all the way to application areas. Particularly, energy sensitive applications are now driving demand for unprecedented hours of service from a single battery that is measured in years rather than in days or months. Meeting this demand requires integrated devices that are not only developed in synergy with the characteristics of battery power, but also with an understanding of how the application will operate in order to achieve 10, 15 or even 20 years of operation without replacing the primary cell. This white paper describes the benefits of low-power design technology and applicable scenarios.

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4. October 2010 by admin.

The Truth about Power Consumption in PIC® MCUs with XLP Technology vs. TI’s MSP430. I found it at http://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/8576

 This white paper will clarify the facts behind Texas Instrument’s arguments that presented TI’s MSP430 as a better low power device than Microchip’s XLP technology.

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11. February 2010 by admin.

In November of 2008, ARM announced the availability of the Cortex Microcontroller Software Interface Standard (CMSIS). They claim that this will reduce the cost of designing software when creating projects for new devices or migrating existing software between Cortex-M based microcontrollers from different silicon vendors. This sounds very good, but is it valid? This paper investigates these claims to determine just how valid they are. This paper also looks at the components of a typical microcontroller and then see just what can or cannot be gained by adding an abstraction layer on top of the typical peripheral firmware libraries.

Get it at http://www.eetimes.com/electrical-engineers/education-training/tech-papers/4211329/Application-Portability-for-32-Bit-Microcontrollers 

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