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Freescale Technologies for
Energy Efficiency

The design of an electronic system is almost always constrained by power and energy considerations—whether it is battery life for a mobile device, thermal power dissipation in a high-performance processor or ultra-low power consumption for a wireless sensing application. In addition, recent economic forces and increased environmental awareness have changed the landscape for new product design. Now energy efficiency is often the lead discussion as companies formulate new product strategies. However, even though energy budgets are playing a larger role in determining the finished designs, manufacturers realize that the market will not allow them to compromise on performance. In response to these challenges, Freescale has adopted a comprehensive approach to optimize its products for high performance within constrained energy budgets. This optimization is tackled across a broad front, including semiconductor process technologies, circuit design techniques, system architectures, platform configurations and design methodologies. For CMOS technologies, novel approaches are used to reduce both static (leakage) power and dynamic (switching) power. This is increasingly important as CMOS geometries continue to shrink and static power becomes an even larger portion of the total energy used. As a result, Freescale is a recognized leader in the design of high-performance, energy-efficient semiconductor products. Underscoring this, Freescale has introduced the Energy-Efficient Solutions mark to highlight selected products that excel in effective implementation of energyefficiency technologies that deliver market-leading performance in the application spaces they are designed to address. This white paper discusses how Freescale technologies for energy efficiency are used to dramatically lower power consumption without sacrificing performance and functionality, and highlights a selection of Freescale products that use these technologies to achieve exceptional overall energy efficiency.