Power Management

The trends in converged devices all point to greater power consumption. There is a growing emphasis on the user experience that demands better graphics and multimedia content. Additionally, the support of various methods of accessing data via telephony, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, Bluetooth, GPS, Television, FM radio continues to place power demands on all devices. Combined with this increased expectations for computing power, consumers rank long battery life as their most desired feature in mobile devices.

Over the years, Intrinsyc has accumulated expertise in optimizing battery life on converged devices without compromising the user experience. Intrinsyc helps manufacturers build devices that use a minimum amount of battery power and still deliver the robust performance that end users demand. Intrinsyc made a specialty of developing efficient methods of power management for such devices.

Benefits

  • Silicon vendors:
    Intrinsyc's deep knowledge of ARM architecture and chipset-specific power management functionality, combined with multiple mobile and embedded OS experience enables Intrinsyc extract the most out of the power management capabilities provided by the silicon on customer devices giving your product a competitive advantage.
  • Embedded & Mobile Device OEM/ODMs:
    Our in-depth understanding of the leading application processors' architectures and our OS-level power management expertise, we help deliver energy efficient, leading edge mobile devices with critical time-to-market deadlines.

Experience

  • Experience building production quality BSPs to optimize the power consumption at the system level.
  • Experience working with ARM9 and ARM11 core application processors and ARM's Intelligent Energy Management (IEM) solution.
  • Experience working with power management frameworks of various mobile operating systems (Linux/Android, Windows Mobile/CE, Symbian/S60)

Technologies

Intrinsyc Power Management technology expertise encompasses:

  • Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) Technology
  • Various CPU power management architectures including ARM Intelligent Energy Manager(IEM), Freescale XCC Power Manager, Intel Power Manager(IPM) and TI SmartReflex
  • Intrinsyc's own Advanced Predictive Power Management and power profiler software