Title
Event-based DVFS control in GALS-ANoC MPSoCs
Abstract
Many Processor Systems on Chip (MPSoCs) have become tremendously complex systems and more sensitive to variabilities with technology scaling. Globally Asynchronous Locally Synchronous (GALS) designs alleviate such problems by having multiple clocks, each one being distributed on a small area of the chip. Also, power constraints are of great interest for mobile platforms powered by battery and power management techniques, mainly based on Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) algorithms, are hence required. Whereas a closed-loop feedback has been shown as an efficient solution in the monoprocessor case, the present paper is dedicated to a multiprocessor architecture where a decentralized global controller manages the different voltage/frequency domains into a chip. The main innovation of the proposal is the use of event-based methods, where the control updates are event driven. Thus, the communicating instants are decided w.r.t. the dynamics of the system to control. The proposed framework is tested in simulation. It notably highlights a strong reduction in the sampling and communication instants and, consequently, in the energy consumption since the communication consumes a lot in such a MPSoC configuration.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/ACC.2013.6580626
American Control Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
energy consumption,multiprocessing systems,power aware computing,system-on-chip,DVFS algorithm,GALS-ANoC MPSoC,MPSoC configuration,battery management technique,closed-loop feedback,communication instant,control update,decentralized global controller,dynamic voltage and frequency scaling,energy consumption,event-based DVFS control,event-based method,globally asynchronous locally synchronous,many-processor systems-on-chip,multiprocessor architecture,power constraint,power management technique
Power management,Control theory,System on a chip,Globally asynchronous locally synchronous,Computer science,Chip,Frequency scaling,MPSoC,Energy consumption,Embedded system
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0743-1619
978-1-4799-0177-7
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
11
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
S. Durand137734.39
Suzanne Lesecq211120.60
Edith Beigne353652.54
Diego Puschini47110.76