Real-Time Task Scheduling for a Variable Voltage Processor

  • Authors:
  • Takanori Okuma;Tohru Ishihara;Hiroto Yasuura

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, 6-1 Kasuga-koen, Kasuga, 816-8580 Japan;Department of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, 6-1 Kasuga-koen, Kasuga, 816-8580 Japan;Department of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, 6-1 Kasuga-koen, Kasuga, 816-8580 Japan

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 12th international symposium on System synthesis
  • Year:
  • 1999

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

This paper presents a real-time task scheduling technique with a variable voltage processor which can vary its supply voltage dynamically. Using such a processor, running tasks with a low supply voltage leads to drastic power reduction. However, reducing the supply voltage may violate real-time constraints. In this paper, we propose a scheduling technique which simultaneously assigns both CPU time and a supply voltage to each task so as to minimize total energy consumption while satisfying all real-time constraints. Experimental results demonstrate effectiveness of the proposed technique.