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14 December 2009

Fine-grain stochastic modelling of dynamic power management policies and analysis of their power–latency tradeoffs

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Dynamic power management (DPM) is one of the main system-level low-power techniques for portable devices. This study presents a fine-grain Markov modelling approach that enables accurate analysis of system power and latency characteristics with full consideration of mode switching overheads in both processor and power controller. The new approach also makes it possible to incorporate latency analysis in terms of deadline satisfaction.

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Published in print: 14 December 2009
Published online: 31 March 2024

Inspec keywords

  1. low-power electronics
  2. Markov processes
  3. microprocessor chips
  4. power control

Keywords

  1. dynamic power management policy
  2. system-level low-power techniques
  3. fine-grain Markov modelling
  4. fine-grain stochastic modelling
  5. dynamic power management analysis
  6. portable devices
  7. system power characteristics
  8. system latency characteristics
  9. mode switching overheads
  10. power-latency tradeoffs

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Y. Chen
Asynchronous Systems Laboratory, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
F. Xia
Asynchronous Systems Laboratory, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
D. Shang
Asynchronous Systems Laboratory, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
A. Yakovlev
Asynchronous Systems Laboratory, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK

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