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A Survey of Techniques For Improving Energy Efficiency in Embedded Computing Systems
Recent technological advances have greatly improved the performance and
features of embedded systems. With the number of just mobile devices now
reaching nearly equal to the population of earth, embedded systems have truly
become ubiquitous. These trends, however, have also made the task of managing
their power consumption extremely challenging. In recent years, several
techniques have been proposed to address this issue. In this paper, we survey
the techniques for managing power consumption of embedded systems. We discuss
the need of power management and provide a classification of the techniques on
several important parameters to highlight their similarities and differences.
This paper is intended to help the researchers and application-developers in
gaining insights into the working of power management techniques and designing
even more efficient high-performance embedded systems of tomorrow
A Multi-objective Perspective for Operator Scheduling using Fine-grained DVS Architecture
The stringent power budget of fine grained power managed digital integrated
circuits have driven chip designers to optimize power at the cost of area and
delay, which were the traditional cost criteria for circuit optimization. The
emerging scenario motivates us to revisit the classical operator scheduling
problem under the availability of DVFS enabled functional units that can
trade-off cycles with power. We study the design space defined due to this
trade-off and present a branch-and-bound(B/B) algorithm to explore this state
space and report the pareto-optimal front with respect to area and power. The
scheduling also aims at maximum resource sharing and is able to attain
sufficient area and power gains for complex benchmarks when timing constraints
are relaxed by sufficient amount. Experimental results show that the algorithm
that operates without any user constraint(area/power) is able to solve the
problem for most available benchmarks, and the use of power budget or area
budget constraints leads to significant performance gain.Comment: 18 pages, 6 figures, International journal of VLSI design &
Communication Systems (VLSICS
MORA: an Energy-Aware Slack Reclamation Scheme for Scheduling Sporadic Real-Time Tasks upon Multiprocessor Platforms
In this paper, we address the global and preemptive energy-aware scheduling
problem of sporadic constrained-deadline tasks on DVFS-identical multiprocessor
platforms. We propose an online slack reclamation scheme which profits from the
discrepancy between the worst- and actual-case execution time of the tasks by
slowing down the speed of the processors in order to save energy. Our algorithm
called MORA takes into account the application-specific consumption profile of
the tasks. We demonstrate that MORA does not jeopardize the system
schedulability and we show by performing simulations that it can save up to 32%
of energy (in average) compared to execution without using any energy-aware
algorithm.Comment: 11 page
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