The market of portable digital audio players (DAPs) have literally exploded the last couple of years. Other markets has grown as well. PDAs, GPS receivers, mobile phones, and so on.
This resulted in more advanced ICs and SoCs becoming publically available, eliminating the need for in-house ASICs, thus enabling smaller actors to enter the markets.
This thesis explores the possibilities of developing a low power, hand-held device on a very limited budget and strict time scale. This thesis report also covers all the steps taken in the development procedure.
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Purpose:
Considering the availability of ICs and SoCs would it be possible to develop a small low power hand-held device on a very limited budget and time scale?
The purpose of this thesis is to try to develop an embedded system on a low budget and in that way evaluate the possibilities of doing so on a low budget and a very limited time scale. Different kinds of problems may occur while developing such a system because of the low budget. These problems has to be considered too.
Things as power consumption, power management and energy saving needs to be considered during the development as well. Is it possible to get a fully functional device in less than 40 man weeks? What are the main difficulties in developing a system like this?
Source: University of Gävle
Author: Hussain, Tayyab