Donations by IBM IBM has donated a PowerPC 405 LP deveopment board. References: internal notes (limited access in ncsu domain) Publications: "Exploiting Synchronous and Asynchronous DVS for Feedback EDF Scheduling on an Embedded Platform" by Y. Zhu and F. Mueller in ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, Vol. 7, No. 1, Dec 2007, pages 1-26. "Feedback EDF Scheduling of Real-Time Tasks Exploiting Dynamic Voltage Scaling" by Y. Zhu and F. Mueller in Real-Time Systems Journal, Vol. 31, No. 1-3, Dec 2005, pages 33-63. "DVSleak: Combining Leakage Reduction and Voltage Scaling in Feedback EDF Scheduling " by Y. Zhu and F. Mueller in ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems, Jun 2007, pages 31-40. "Hybrid Leakage and Voltage Reduction under EDF Scheduling" by Y. Zhu and F. Mueller in P=ac2 Conference, IBM T.J. Watson, Sep 2005. "Feedback EDF Scheduling Exploiting Hardware-Assisted Asynchronous Dynamic Voltage Scaling" by Y. Zhu and F. Mueller in ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems, Jun 2005, pages 203-212. "EDF-DVS Scheduling on the IBM Embedded PowerPC 405LP" by A. Anantaraman, A. Mahmoud, R. Venkatesan, Y. Zhu and F. Mueller in P=ac2 Conference, IBM T.J. Watson, Oct 2004. "Feedback EDF Scheduling Exploiting Dynamic Voltage Scaling" by Y. Zhu and F. Mueller in Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium, May 2004, pages 84-93. "Energy-Conserving Feedback EDF Scheduling for Embedded Systems with Real-Time Constraints" by A. Dudani and F. Mueller and Y. Zhu in ACM SIGPLAN Joint Conference Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES'02) and Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems (SCOPES'02), Jun 2002, pages 213-222. "Preemption Handling and Scalability of Feedback DVS-EDF" by Y. Zhu and F. Mueller in Workshop on Compilers and Operating Systems for Low Power, Sep 2002.