New Software Version Features Dynamic Clock-Scaling, Reduced Power
Peripherals, and Improved Analysis Tools
BOSTON, Sept. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- InHand Electronics, Inc., a leader in
creating ultra-portable handheld device platforms for OEMs, today announced at
the Embedded Systems Conference the availability of BatterySmart 2, the next-
generation of its power management software. The new BatterySmart 2 software
suite leverages the original BatterySmart hardware/software, and adds a series
of features that provide developers with unprecedented power consumption
visibility and control for their handheld device designs.
"InHand recognizes that as more companies are incorporating handhelds into
their IT infrastructures, it is important that their Windows Powered devices
offer maximum performance," said Keith White, senior director of the embedded
and appliance platforms group at Microsoft Corp. "By incorporating
BatterySmart 2 into its Windows CE 3.0-based handheld platforms, InHand is
able to provide OEMs with a rich offering that will enable them to ship smart
PDAs which offer the battery life and power businesses demand."
BatterySmart 2 provides developers of handheld devices based on Intel's
StrongARM and XScale CPUs with three new features to control power
consumption:
* Dynamic clock-scaling: taking advantage of StrongARM's run-time clock-
switching capabilities, the new BatterySmart software driver can
automatically and unobtrusively detect periods of low and high
performance and double clock-speed or cut it in half. Developers and
end-users have total control over this feature, optionally enabling it
under various CPU load conditions.
* Reduced power peripherals: an improved resource manager and software
drivers allow StrongARM peripherals such as serial ports to achieve
significantly reduced power consumption while simultaneously improving
system performance. As compared with handheld devices created with
conventional sample software drivers and reference designs, power
consumption during run-time I/O operations can be reduced by 10-30%
with a similar reduction in CPU bandwidth requirements.
* Improved analysis tools: to provide developers with a deeper
understanding of the effects of power consumption, improved run-time
analysis and logging tools offer real-time performance and power
consumption tracking. These new tools allow developers to easily see
the effects of various software and hardware modules on handheld power
consumption and performance.
"BatterySmart 2 continues our commitment to providing handheld device
developers with the lowest possible power consumption," said Andrew Girson,
InHand's CEO. "With the new features of BatterySmart 2, OEMs have even greater
control over the performance and power consumption of their handheld device,
and the new analysis tools allow a better understanding of the factors that
affect power consumption and performance."
BatterySmart 2 for Microsoft Corp.'s Windows CE 3.0 will begin shipping in
September and will be included free on all Elf and Fingertip Development
Platform starter kits. It also will be a standard part of all production
platforms and will be included in all IP licenses.
A revised white paper describing BatterySmart 2 and detailing specific
power consumption numbers under a variety of operational scenarios is
available at: http://www.inhandelectronics.com/batterysmart/whitepaper.pdf .
About InHand Electronics, Inc.
InHand Electronics, Inc. is an ultra-portable handheld platform provider
to Original Equipment Manufacturers. The company provides commercial off-the-
shelf developer's kits that are industrial-strength and power-efficient, for
uses in the military, medical technology and telecommunications industries
among others. The platforms accommodate standard wireless, data storage and
acquisition plugins. Fingertip, Elf and OmniMeter are built on the industry's
leading technologies including Intel's StrongARM and XScale RISC chips and the
Windows CE operating system. The company's headquarters are in Rockville,
Maryland. For more information please view the company web site at
http://www.inhandelectronics.com .
Product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their
respective owners.
SOURCE InHand Electronics, Inc.
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Related links:
http://www.inhandelectronics.com
http://www.inhandelectronics.com/batterysmart/whitepaper.pdf
CONTACT:
Editorial Contact: Rebecca Mettler,
+1-703-212-7075, rmettler@inhandelectronics.com, or Customer
Contact: Mark Price, +1-301-670-9508,
sales@inhandelectronics.com, both of InHand Electronics, Inc.
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