Worldwide, the demand for portable, hand-held devices is increasing strongly. More and more cellphones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), MP3 players and Game Boys are bought. At the same time, there is an increase in the number of different tasks such devices are expected to be capable of doing, ranging from image processing to data communications. Thus, an overall trend is visible towards ever smaller devices integrating ever more functions. Furthermore, most processing tasks tend to be data-centric, i.e., most computational effort is put in processing data streams. As such, the operating cores can be seen as data stream processors.
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(2007). Introduction. In: Power-Aware Architecting for data-dominated applications. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6420-3_1
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