Energy Characterization and Classification of Embedded Operating System Services

Author

Ouni, Bassem ; Belleudy, Cécile ; Senn, Eric

Author_Institution

LEAT, Univ. of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Sophia-Antipolis, France

fYear

2012

fDate

5-8 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

684

Lastpage

691

Abstract

This paper presents an energy estimation approach for embedded low power operating systems (OS). The methodology consists in characterizing and estimating energy and power overheads of a set of embedded OS basic services : scheduling, context switch and inter-process communication. We analyze the impact of hardware and software parameters like processor frequency and scheduling policy on the energy consumption. Then, energy and power models are extracted and the OS energy overhead of H264 application is estimated using the STORM tool. For the measurement setup, the hardware platform used is OMAP35x EVM board running Linux omap as operating system.

Keywords

Linux; embedded systems; pattern classification; power aware computing; scheduling; H264 application; Linux omap; OMAP35x EVM board; OS energy overhead; STORM tool; context switch; embedded OS services; embedded low power operating systems; embedded operating system service classification; energy characterization; energy consumption; energy estimation approach; interprocess communication; power overheads; processor frequency; scheduling policy; Context; Energy consumption; Hardware; Kernel; Processor scheduling; Switches; Context switch; Embedded operating system; Energy estimation; Inter-process communication; Scheduling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital System Design (DSD), 2012 15th Euromicro Conference on

Conference_Location

Izmir

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2498-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DSD.2012.48

Filename

6386958