Itsy: stretching the bounds of mobile computing

1 April 2001

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in Computer

Vol. 34 (4) , 28-36
https://doi.org/10.1109/2.917534

Abstract

The Compaq Itsy, a prototype pocket computer that has enough processing power and memory capacity to run cycle-hungry applications such as continuous-speech recognition and real-time MPEG-1 movie decoding, has proved to be a useful experimental tool for interesting applications, systems work and power studies.

Keywords

MOBILE COMPUTING
APPLICATION SOFTWARE
HARDWARE
CLOCKS
BATTERIES
ENERGY MANAGEMENT
PROTOTYPES
MICROPROCESSORS
POWER SYSTEM MANAGEMENT
OPERATING SYSTEMS

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