Energy minimization using multiple supply voltages
ISLPED '96 Proceedings of the 1996 international symposium on Low power electronics and design
MediaBench: a tool for evaluating and synthesizing multimedia and communicatons systems
MICRO 30 Proceedings of the 30th annual ACM/IEEE international symposium on Microarchitecture
Scheduling with multiple voltages
Integration, the VLSI Journal
Multimedia Systems
Synthesis of low power CMOS VLSI circuits using dual supply voltages
Proceedings of the 36th annual ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
Energy efficient real-time scheduling
Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
A realistic variable voltage scheduling model for real-time applications
Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
A resource allocation model for QoS management
RTSS '97 Proceedings of the 18th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium
Practical Solutions for QoS-Based Resource Allocation
RTSS '98 Proceedings of the IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium
ASP-DAC '02 Proceedings of the 2002 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
System Synthesis of Synchronous Multimedia Applications
Proceedings of the 12th international symposium on System synthesis
An on-line approach for power minimization in QoS sensitive systems
ASP-DAC '03 Proceedings of the 2003 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
Policy optimization for dynamic power management
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Power optimization of variable-voltage core-based systems
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Optimizing power using transformations
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Quality of service guarantees in virtual circuit switched networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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The majority of modern multimedia and mobile systems have two common denominators: quality-of-service (QoS) requirements, such as latency and synchronization, and strict energy constraints. However, until now no synthesis techniques have been proposed for the design and efficient use of such systems. We have two main objectives: conceptual and synthesis. The conceptual objective is to develop a generic practical technique for the automatic development of online adaptive algorithms from efficient off-line algorithms using statistical techniques. The synthesis objective is to introduce the first design technique for QoS low-power synthesis. We introduce a system of provably-optimal techniques that minimize energy consumption of stream-oriented applications under two main QoS metrics: latency and synchronization. Specifically, we study how multiple voltages can be used to simultaneously satisfy hardware constraints and minimize power consumption while preserving the requested level of QoS. The purpose of the off-line algorithm is threefold. First, it is used as input to statistical software which is used to identify important and relevant parameters of the processes. Second, the algorithm provides buffer occupancy rate indicators. Lastly, it provides a way to combine buffer occupancy and QoS metrics to form a fast and efficient online algorithm. The effectiveness of the algorithms is demonstrated on a number of standard multimedia benchmarks.