The Performance and Energy Consumption of Embedded Real-Time Operating Systems

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1454-1469

  Baynes, Kathleen ^a   Collins, Chris ^b   Fiterman, Eric ^c   Ganesh, Brinda ^d   Kohout, Paul ^e   Smit, Christine ^d   Zhang, Tiebing ^f   Jacob, Bruce ^d  

^a Verizon   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Salar Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e EVI Inc   (United States)

^f 3e Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

C OS II; Chimera; Echidna; Embedded systems; Motorola M CORE; Performance modeling; Power and energy modeling; Real time operating systems (RTOS)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

REAL-TIME OPERATING SYSTEMS (RTOS);

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0242662207     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2003.1244943     Document Type: Article

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