Massoud Pedram

TL;DR: In this paper, the design principles and architecture of a dual-battery power supply system for portable electronics is described, and the key idea is to integrate two battery types with different energy capacity and current rate curves into the power supply, and then use them in an interleaved manner in response to varying current requirement of the VLSI circuit that is powered by this dual battery system.

TL;DR: The mobile device is modeled as a semi-Markov decision process (SMDP) and the optimization problem to set the DVFS level and the transmission rate is effectively solved by linear programming combined with a one-dimensional heuristic search.

TL;DR: This paper is the first to formally describe the global charge allocation problem in HEES systems, namely, distributing a specified level of incoming power to a subset of destination EES banks so that maximum charge allocation efficiency is achieved.

TL;DR: Simulation results with a 65 nm process demonstrate that this technique can reduce the total leakage power dissipation of a 64 Kb SRAM by more than 50% and incurs neither area nor delay overhead.

TL;DR: The proposed dynamic backlight scaling approach, which is based on tone mapping, is amenable to highly efficient hardware realization because it does not need information about the histogram of the displayed image.