Due to significant industrial demands toward software systems with increasing complexity
and challenging quality requirements, software architecture design has become an …

Recent technological advances have greatly improved the performance and features of
embedded systems. With the number of just mobile devices now reaching nearly equal to …

For decades, the high-performance computing (HPC) community has focused on
performance, where performance is defined as speed. To achieve better performance per …

A five-fold increase in leakage current is predicted with each technology generation. While
Dynamic Voltage Scaling (DVS) is known to reduce dynamic power consumption, it also …

Modern system-on-chip (SoC) design shows a clear trend toward integration of multiple
processor cores on a single chip. Designing a multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSOC) …

Portable embedded computing systems require energy autonomy. This is achieved by
batteries serving as a dedicated energy source. The requirement of portability places severe …

Energy-efficient designs have played import roles for hardware and software
implementations for a decade. With the advanced technology of VLSI circuit designs, energy …

Multicore processors deliver a higher throughput at lower power consumption than unicore
processors. In the near future, they will thus be widely used in mobile real-time systems …

This paper presents important, new results of a study on the problem of task scheduling and
voltage allocation in dynamically variable voltage processors, the purpose of which was …

We propose an energy-balanced allocation of a real-time application onto a single-hop
cluster of homogeneous sensor nodes connected with multiple wireless channels. An epoch …