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This paper proposes a new hardware-based energy management technique for future embedded multithreaded processors with integrated Earliest Deadline First (EDF) real-time scheduling. Our energy management technique controls frequency reduction and dynamic voltage scaling depending on the deadlines, the Worst Case Execution Times (WCET), and the real execution times. Hard real-time capability can be guaranteed for aperiodic threads and for threads with deadlines shorter than their period. Our evaluations show that energy consumption can be reduced up to about \(\frac{2}{3}\) of a comparable software-based algorithm.
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Uhrig, S., Ungerer, T. (2005). Energy Management for Embedded Multithreaded Processors with Integrated EDF Scheduling. In: Beigl, M., Lukowicz, P. (eds) Systems Aspects in Organic and Pervasive Computing - ARCS 2005. ARCS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3432. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31967-2_1
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