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The application framework of the presented research work is stablished in the area of the low-power portable stand-alone devices. Considering as a paradigm application the implementation of future portable terminals for telecommunications, two opposed trends coexist that determine the need for an optimized energy management. An important increase in power consumption is expected in future battery operated terminals, specially for the third and fourth generation systems (3G, 4G), due to the increasing demand in their functionalities, extended towards audiovisual communication and a much higher multimedia data flow (the last issue could also be referred to the personal audio players). In addition to this, other low-power stand-alone devices, such as the telemetric sensing devices and wireless sensor networks motes, should be the application target of the herein presented work. Microsystems and nanoelectronic circuits power supply fit this category as well.

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    Gerard Villar Piqué

  2. Technical University of Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

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Villar Piqué, G., Alarcón, E. (2011). Introduction. In: CMOS Integrated Switching Power Converters. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8843-0_1

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