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Secondly, there is a trend to mobile, battery operated systems, requiring extremely low power, as we see it in the mobile phone business. For these devices, every surplus gate reduces standby time, well adopted, special ASICs are the only solution. Because of high performance requirements, only very few companies in the world are able to design such systems, using high level IP cores like ARM 7 series or even proprietary cores. Software compatibility to operation systems like LINUX is essential, because software design is more than half of the effort.