Key Challenges
Over the past years, we have observed twists and turns in the evolution of e-book readers with more and more people gradually changing their reading habits from traditional books to these lightweight, environment-friendly electronic devices. However, the rapid growth of tablets and portable PCs provides strong competition to e-readers. In the end, e-readers can still provide added value to the users in terms of improved battery lifetime and better eye protection thanks to their unique E-ink display.
The following challenges emerge as key elements in the design process of e-readers:
- Reduce power consumption of the processor and the wireless communication devices to ensure maximum autonomy;
- Ensure reliable wireless connections to peripherals such as a smart pen;
- Enable convenient user access to digital book libraries and online resources with reliable encryption and security features;
- Provide a touch sensitive user interface to mimic ordinary motions such as page-turning, note-taking, bookmarking, etc.
Our Products and Solutions
As a creator of unique technologies and products that provide our customers the best solutions to address their challenges and opportunities, ST provides both mobile platform suppliers and mobile device manufacturers (OEM/ODM) with a complete range of products and development resources to help the design of leading-edge mobile devices. With a complete range of low-power products (Bluetooth Low Energy ICs, 60-GHz RF modules, high-integration filters, etc.), our RF offer includes RF SOI technologies designed to improve wireless connectivity performance.
In addition to our portfolio of MCUs for specific low-power task control, our MEMS motion and environmental sensors as well as image sensors and time-of-flight devices can significantly enhance the user experience.
Along with a wide range of dedicated high-integration protection devices such as ESD protection and EMI filtering devices to ensure reliable connections via USB and HDMI devices as well as access to SD cards, ST offers a complete range of analog products and high-efficiency power and energy management devices optimized for battery-powered systems including touchscreen power management and wireless charging solutions.
Moreover, ST provides a comprehensive set of both hardware and software development tools and other developer resources to help you reduce development time and costs while gaining market share thanks to a shorter time to market.
