The modern smartphone is a small masterpiece for power-management components. In principle, you want to add new applications to your smartphone—like buying movie tickets or monitoring your fitness workouts—without increasing the size and weight of the handset, or, worse, depleting the battery. Every app will add components to the bill of materials, and it’s your job to determine how they’ll be powered.
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