Power dissipation in high-end integrated communication processors

摘要

ARM YOURSELF WITH TOUGH QUESTIONS FOR CHIP VENDORS TO MORE ACCURATELY COMPARE POWER AMONG PROCESSORS. Traditionally, chip vendors' hardware specifications have provided typical and maximum core-power values at various frequencies. A common engineering practice has been to use the typical power number for thermal design and the maximum power number for power-supply design, adding appropriate margins to account for I/O power.