Energy Analysis of a Real-time Multiprocessor Control of Idle States

Jabran Khan, Sébastien Bilavarn, Khurram Bhatti, Cécile Belleudy

2013

Abstract

This paper focuses on the analysis of a dynamic low power switching technique called assertive dynamic power management (AsDPM) on ARM based platforms. The availability of ready tasks during the execution of a program is random. The choice to when exactly a ready task is executed on certain processor and how many processors are required for the remaining tasks can save a significant amount of energy utilization. This paper focuses on the energy efficiency of AsDPM strategy for real-time tasks, which decides when exactly a ready task shall execute; thereby reducing the number of active processors, which eventually reduces energy consumption. We will analyze the energy gains resulting from the implementation of this AsDPM power strategy for different ARM based multiprocessor platforms (ARM1176JZF-S, CortexA9). Results show significant amounts of gains up to 60% for different execution conditions*.

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Khan J., Bilavarn S., Bhatti K. and Belleudy C. (2013). Energy Analysis of a Real-time Multiprocessor Control of Idle States . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS, ISBN 978-989-8565-43-3, pages 125-130. DOI: 10.5220/0004314001250130


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@conference{peccs13,
author={Jabran Khan and Sébastien Bilavarn and Khurram Bhatti and Cécile Belleudy},
title={Energy Analysis of a Real-time Multiprocessor Control of Idle States},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS,},
year={2013},
pages={125-130},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004314001250130},
isbn={978-989-8565-43-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS,
TI - Energy Analysis of a Real-time Multiprocessor Control of Idle States
SN - 978-989-8565-43-3
AU - Khan J.
AU - Bilavarn S.
AU - Bhatti K.
AU - Belleudy C.
PY - 2013
SP - 125
EP - 130
DO - 10.5220/0004314001250130