Glossary

active power consumption

power that is consumed in a circuit when there is a change in the inputs.

adaptive body-biasing

a technique used to change the threshold voltage by applying a voltage bias to the body of a transistor.

application programmer interface (API)

software interface consisting of functions that support hardware-independent application function implementation.

application programming interface (API)

the interface to a software package.

application-specific processor

the broadest and most generic term for processors tuned for various embedded application classes. Such devices may include both processors developed by traditional manual methods and automatically generated configurable processors. Examples of manually ...

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