Session 23 overview: Low-power SoCs: High-performance digital subcommittee

As demands for performance continue to grow, even for embedded processors, SoC designers must continue to develop energy-efficient solutions to fit into their required electrical and thermal envelopes. This session includes 3 papers that focus on achieving high performance with low power and energy-efficient techniques. Two papers present the latest mobile chips from Samsung and MediaTek, which use heterogeneous octa-core ARM CPUs. The paper from National Taiwan University, presents a depth-estimation processor that estimates full HD depth maps at 30fps from up to 5 stereo views of an image, while consuming only 611 mW.