Early Energy Estimation in the Design Process of Networked Embedded Systems

Patrick Heinrich, Christian Prehofer

2013

Abstract

This paper focuses on estimating energy consumption in networked, embedded systems during the early stages of design. In such systems with long development cycles, early decisions regarding hardware and software have a major impact on energy consumption, which places constraints on the design during later stages of the development process. The main objective of this paper is to model the energy consumption throughout the entire design process and to provide a structure for more detailed models and validation. This requires determining which design decisions and system parameters are available in each of the development phases. Using this approach as a basis, energy consumption models are created for each phase. By relying on different estimation techniques, energy consumption estimates are formulated based on the information that is available at every development phase. The main goal is to illustrate a design flow that produces increasingly accurate estimates in each phase.

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Heinrich P. and Prehofer C. (2013). Early Energy Estimation in the Design Process of Networked Embedded Systems . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS, ISBN 978-989-8565-43-3, pages 214-220. DOI: 10.5220/0004334502140220


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@conference{peccs13,
author={Patrick Heinrich and Christian Prehofer},
title={Early Energy Estimation in the Design Process of Networked Embedded Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS,},
year={2013},
pages={214-220},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004334502140220},
isbn={978-989-8565-43-3},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS,
TI - Early Energy Estimation in the Design Process of Networked Embedded Systems
SN - 978-989-8565-43-3
AU - Heinrich P.
AU - Prehofer C.
PY - 2013
SP - 214
EP - 220
DO - 10.5220/0004334502140220