Saving Power By The Milliwatt

Jan Rabaey, head of UC Berkeley’s Wireless Research Center and the author of a new book entitled, “Low Power Design Essentials,” discusses how to generate small amounts of power and what can be done to reduce the amount of power needed for semiconductor design.

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