Voltage-clock scaling for low energy consumption in fixed-priority real-time systems

Real-Time Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 303-317

  Lee, Yann Hang ^a   Krishna, C M ^b  

^a AZ 85281   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts Amherst   (United States)

Author keywords

Low power designs; Real time embedded systems; Scheduling; Voltage scaling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; THEOREM PROVING;

REAL-TIME EMBEDDED SYSTEM; VOLTAGE CLOCK SCALING;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 0038682021     PISSN: 09226443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022864617640     Document Type: Article

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