NDLI: Software architectural transformations: a new approach to low energy embedded software

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Author	Tan, T.K. Raghunathan, A. Jha, N.K.
Copyright Year	2003
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Electr. Eng., Princeton Univ., NJ, USA (Tan, T.K.)
Abstract	Previous work on software optimization for low energy has focussed on instruction-level optimizations and compiler techniques. We argue, and demonstrate, that significant energy savings could be "left on the table" if energy is not considered during the design of the software architecture. As a first step towards addressing this gap, we propose a systematic framework for software architectural transformations to reduce energy consumption. We consider software architectural transformations in the context of the multi-process software style driven by an operating system (OS), which is very commonly employed in energy-sensitive embedded systems. Our methodology for applying software architectural transformations consists of: (i) constructing a software architecture graph representation, (ii) deriving initial energy and performance statistics using a detailed energy simulation framework, (iii) constructing sequences of atomic software architectural transformations, guided by energy change estimates derived from high-level energy macro-models, that result in maximal energy reduction, and (iv) generation of program source code to reflect the optimized software architecture. We employ a wide suite of software architectural transformations whose effects span the application-OS boundary, including how the program functionality is structured into architectural components (e.g., application processes, signal handlers, and device drivers), and connectors between them (inter- component synchronization and communication mechanisms). We present experimental results on several multi-process embedded software programs, in the context of an embedded system that features the Intel StrongARM processor and the embedded Linux OS. The presented results clearly underscore the potential of the proposed methodology (up to 66.1% reduction in energy is obtained). In a broader sense, our work demonstrates the impact of considering energy during the earlier stages of the software design process.
Sponsorship	EDAA EDA Consortium IEEE Comput. Soc. TTTC IEEE Comput. Soc. DATC ECSI ACM/SIGDA RAS
Starting Page	1046
Ending Page	1051
File Size	998105
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769518702
ISSN	15301591
DOI	10.1109/DATE.2003.1253742
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2003-03-07
Publisher Place	Germany
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Embedded software Software architecture Optimizing compilers Software design Embedded system Software performance Software systems Energy consumption Operating systems Statistics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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