Energy efficient fixed-priority scheduling for real-time systems on variable voltage processors

  • Authors:
  • Gang Quan;Xiaobo Hu

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN;Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 38th annual Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Energy consumption has become an increasingly important consideration in designing many real-time embedded systems. Variable voltage processors, if used properly, can dramatically reduce such system energy consumption. In this paper, we present a technique to determine voltage settings for a variable voltage processor that utilizes a fixed priority assignment to schedule jobs. Our approach also produces the minimum constant voltage needed to feasibly schedule the entire job set. Our algorithms lead to significant energy saving compared with previously presented approaches.