Hardware-software codesign of an embedded multiple-supply power management unit for multicore SoCs using an adaptive global/local power allocation and processing scheme

ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Bondade, Rajdeep ^a   Ma, Dongsheng ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive power allocation control scheme; Dynamic voltage scaling (DVS); Multicore systems; Single inductor multiple output (SIMO) DC DC converter; Switching converter

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SCHEMES; DYNAMIC VOLTAGE SCALING (DVS); MULTI-CORE SYSTEMS; SINGLE-INDUCTOR MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (SIMO) DC-DC CONVERTER; SWITCHING CONVERTER;

ALGORITHMS; APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER CONTROL; CONTROLLERS; DC-DC CONVERTERS; DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; EMBEDDED SOFTWARE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; HARDWARE; HVDC POWER TRANSMISSION; LEAKAGE CURRENTS; MANAGEMENT; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; VOLTAGE STABILIZING CIRCUITS;

ELECTRIC INDUCTORS;

EID: 79960663291     PISSN: 10844309     EISSN: 15577309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1970353.1970364     Document Type: Article

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