CSC 714 Project Page

Study of leakage on an IBM PowerPC 405LP Embedded Processor and ways to reduce energy consumption, by combining sleep and low-power modes.

Nachiket S Deshpande         (nsdeshpa@ncsu.edu) 

Progress

• 10/14/2005 Website Created
• 10/17/2005 Submission of Project Proposal
• 10/30/2005 Submission of Preliminary Project Report
• 11/15/2005 Submission of Intermediate Project Report
• 11/30/2005 Submission of Final Project Report

Links

1. "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 (LCTES'05), Jun 2005, pages 203-212.
2. DVSleak : Combining Leakage Reduction and Voltage Scaling in Feedback EDF Scheduling, a white paper by Dr.Frank Mueller, Dept. of Computer Science, NCSU, May 2005.
3. PowerPC 405 Core User Manual
4. MontaVista Linux 3.1 Documentation
5. Comedi Home Page
6. Comedi Documentation