SH-mobile - low power application processor for cellular [3G cellular phones]

Renesas Technology Corp. gains world wide support in the field of application processors for cellular phones (SH-mobile), where various performance demanding applications must be handled with very low power consumption. Techniques of the SH-mobile to reduce leakage current, such as a partial power shut down mechanism and a methodology of multi-threshold transistors are introduced. Also advantages of the SH-mobile architecture, such as dual CPU core, large internal memory, and various media accelerators, are described from a low power consumption point of view.