Error Control and Energy Consumption in Communications for Nomadic Computing
IEEE Transactions on Computers - Special issue on mobile computing
A power metric for mobile systems
ISLPED '96 Proceedings of the 1996 international symposium on Low power electronics and design
Battery-powered digital CMOS design
DATE '99 Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
Design considerations for battery-powered electronics
Proceedings of the 36th annual ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
The impact of battery capacity and memory bandwidth on CPU speed-setting: a case study
ISLPED '99 Proceedings of the 1999 international symposium on Low power electronics and design
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This paper describes nonideal properties of batteries and how these properties may impact power-performance trade offs in wearable computing. The first part of the paper details the characteristics of an ideal battery and how these characteristics are used in sizing batteries and estimating discharge times. Typical nonideal characteristics and the regions of operation where they occur are described. The paper then presents results from a first-principles, variable-load battery model, showing likely areas for exploiting battery behavior in mobile computing. The major result is that, when battery behavior is nonideal, lowering the average power or the energy per operation may not increase the amount of computation that can be completed in a battery life.