UK firm aims to optimise power in mobile devicesNews teamAdiabatic Logic, a company spun out of Cambridge-based technical design consultancy, OptionExist, has won a £45,000 SMART from Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) small business service.
The company is working on a patented power management technique, which it believes could reduce power consumption of ICs in handheld computers and mobile phones by up to 35 per cent.
According to Geoff Harvey, Adiabatic Logic's chief technology officer, "The next generation of chips are expected to consume proportionally more power communicating with each other than they will during their core computing activity.”
The firm’s technique addresses the issue of reducing power consumption during on-board activities such as communications between chips.
“We aim to use the award to demonstrate the feasibility of our technique ahead of exploiting what we believe is a significant sales opportunity," said Harvey.
"The need to reduce power consumption, particularly in battery operated portable electronic devices such as the latest generation of wireless-enabled PDAs and smartphones, will be paramount," added Harvey.