Engineering Energy - Efficient Applications Seminar - Proceedings edited by Andreas Winter Jan

The performance of processors has increased dramatically since the first processor was developed in 1969. At the same time processors perform more complex functions than before. This is important for adoption of mobile devices to achieve requirements of users. However, performance has its price: high power consumption. Due to the basis of complex functions, which a processor should comprised, much power is used. This power comes from the battery of mobile devices. Due to increasing performance of processors, battery lifetime must be increased too, to supply processors with energy. Another approach is to optimize processors, so that the same functions could be perform as before, but with a decreased power consumption. The processor optimize should be the main theme in this work. Therefore, different processor types with main focus on specialized processors will be described.