System-Level Design Techniques for Energy-Efficient Embedded Systems

✍ Scribed by Marcus T. Schmitz, Bashir M. Al-Hashimi, Petru Eles (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 204
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

System-Level Design Techniques for Energy-Efficient Embedded Systems addresses the development and validation of co-synthesis techniques that allow an effective design of embedded systems with low energy dissipation. The book provides an overview of a system-level co-design flow, illustrating through examples how system performance is influenced at various steps of the flow including allocation, mapping, and scheduling. The book places special emphasis upon system-level co-synthesis techniques for architectures that contain voltage scalable processors, which can dynamically trade off between computational performance and power consumption. Throughout the book, the introduced co-synthesis techniques, which target both single-mode systems and emerging multi-mode applications, are applied to numerous benchmarks and real-life examples including a realistic smart phone.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction....Pages 1-18
Background....Pages 19-33
Power Variation-Driven Dynamic Voltage Scaling....Pages 35-59
Optimisation of Mapping and Scheduling for Dynamic Voltage Scaling....Pages 61-98
Energy-Efficient Multi-mode Embedded Systems....Pages 99-131
Dynamic Voltage Scaling for Control Flow-Intensive Applications....Pages 133-149
LOPOCOS: A Prototype Low Power Co-Synthesis Tool....Pages 151-172
Conclusion....Pages 173-179

✦ Subjects

Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design; Computer Hardware