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A Power Consumption Analysis Technique Using UML-Based Design Models in Embedded Software Development

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SOFSEM 2011: Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM 2011)

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Abstract

Although the power consumption of embedded system depends on the operation of hardware devices, software behaviors give great effect to the power consumption because of its functionality and complexity growth. This paper proposes a power consumption estimation technique using design models of software to support energy-efficient embedded software development. Even though code-based power analysis techniques have been proposed, these techniques have demerits that the analysis time is long and feedback is not easy. Our proposed technique makes use of UML behavior models for the power consumption analysis in order to overcome the demerits of code-based analysis. When comparing with the existing code-based analysis, our technique can provide the power analysis result at earlier phase than implementation. Therefore, software engineer can apply our technique to select energy-efficient design decisions in embedded software development process.

This work was supported by the Korea Research Foundation Grant (KRF-2008-313-D00936) and also partially supported by the MKE, Korea, under the ITRC support program supervised by the NIPA (NIPA-2010-(C1090-1031-0001)).

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, Chungbuk National University, 410 Sungbongro, Heungdukgu, Cheongju, 361-763, Republic of Korea

    Doo-Hwan Kim, Jong-Phil Kim & Jang-Eui Hong

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  1. Ivana Černá, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Informatics, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Botanicka 68 a, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

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  2. Department of Software Engineering, University of Szeged, Árpád tér 2., 6720, Szeged, Hungary

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  3. Informationstechnologie und Ausbildung, CAB F 16, F 13.1, Universitätstraße 6, ETH Zürich, 8092, Zürich, Switzerland

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Kim, DH., Kim, JP., Hong, JE. (2011). A Power Consumption Analysis Technique Using UML-Based Design Models in Embedded Software Development. In: Černá, I., et al. SOFSEM 2011: Theory and Practice of Computer Science. SOFSEM 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6543. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18381-2_27

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