Title
Optimizing the startup time of embedded systems: a case study of digital TV
Abstract
The demand for fast startup is mostly motivated by embedded systems, especially for home appliances such as digital TV. Though a new storage device such as a flash memory may help reduce the startup time, its applicability is limited to a small size application, which is not the case for recent media processing software consisting of millions lines of code. This paper proposes novel approaches to reduce the startup time of large embedded systems. The startup latency of a commercial digital TV is analyzed in order to marshal resource initialization and to warm up the buffer cache. Based on the analysis we propose a better initialization order and determine when data should be prefetched to the buffer cache in order to reduce the startup time, and which data. Our measurements show that our schemes reduce the total startup time by 35%.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/TCE.2009.5373794
IEEE Trans. Consumer Electronics
Keywords
Field
DocType
digital television (dtv),index terms — booting time,large embedded system,commercial digital tv,storage device,fast startup,cache storage,initialization order,startup time,startup latency,digital television dtv,media processing software,case study,flash memory,total startup time,digital tv,home appliances,embedded system,embedded systems,booting time,buffer cache,domestic appliances,flash memories,marshal resource initialization,digital television,lines of code,information technology,embedded software,application software,hardware,kernel
Kernel (linear algebra),Disk buffer,Flash memory,Computer science,Latency (engineering),Processing,Real-time computing,Digital television,Initialization,Embedded system,Source lines of code
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
55
4
0098-3063
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.82
4
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Heeseung Jo167439.34
H. Kim290.82
J. Jeong390.82
J. Lee434450.61
S. Maeng590.82