Paper Info
Title
Optimal allocation and placement of thermal sensors for reconfigurable systems and its practical extension
Abstract
A dynamic monitoring of thermal behavior of hardware resources using thermal sensors is very important to maintain the operation of systems safe and reliable. This work proposes an effective solution to the problem of thermal sensor allocation and placement for reconfigurable systems at the post-manufacturing stage. Specifically, we define the sensor allocation and placement problem (SAPP), and propose a solution which formulates SAPP into the unate-covering problem (UCP) and solves it optimally. We then provide an extended solution to handle a practical design issue where the hardware resources for the sensor implementation on specific array locations have already been used up by the application logic. Experimental results using MCNC benchmarks show that our proposed technique uses 19.7% less number of sensors to monitor hotspots on the average than that used by the bisection based [1] approaches.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/ASPDAC.2008.4484042
ASP-DAC
Keywords
Field
DocType
thermal behavior,reconfigurable system,hardware resource,effective solution,extended solution,sensor implementation,unate-covering problem,thermal sensor,thermal sensor allocation,placement problem,sensor allocation,practical extension,optimal allocation,thermal engineering,diodes,field programmable gate arrays,system safety
System safety,Computer science,Real-time computing,Electronic engineering,Application logic,Thermal sensors,Embedded system
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2153-6961
978-1-4244-1922-7
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
6
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Byunghyun Lee1293.46
Taewhan Kim21087113.31