Low-power software for low-power people

Author

Snyder, J.H. ; McKie, J.B. ; Locanthi, B.N.

Author_Institution

AT&T Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

10-12 Oct. 1994

Firstpage

32

Lastpage

35

Abstract

We have been working towards portable terminals that interact with the user via speech synthesis, automatic speech recognition, and handwriting recognition. Our work includes the development of hardware platforms, operating system (OS) and application software; and the adaptation of signal processing algorithms to these systems. Although we will describe HoBo3, the hardware platform for this work, our primary interest will be in discussing software issues that are relevant to low-power portable computing. We compare a modern Unix implementation with the OS we use, "Plan9 from Bell Labs", and draw from this comparison a number of lessons relevant for the design of low-power software.

Keywords

portable computers; HoBo3; Plan9; automatic speech recognition; handwriting recognition; hardware platforms; low-power portable computing; low-power software; operating system; portable terminals; signal processing algorithms; software issues; speech synthesis; Automatic speech recognition; Energy consumption; Handwriting recognition; Hardware; Mobile computing; Operating systems; Portable computers; Signal processing algorithms; Speech codecs; Speech synthesis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Low Power Electronics, 1994. Digest of Technical Papers., IEEE Symposium

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1953-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LPE.1994.573193

Filename

573193