Hardware/Software Architectures for Low-Power Embedded Multimedia Systems

Download or read book Hardware/Software Architectures for Low-Power Embedded Multimedia Systems written by Muhammad Shafique and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-07-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents techniques for energy reduction in adaptive embedded multimedia systems, based on dynamically reconfigurable processors. The approach described will enable designers to meet performance/area constraints, while minimizing video quality degradation, under various, run-time scenarios. Emphasis is placed on implementing power/energy reduction at various abstraction levels. To enable this, novel techniques for adaptive energy management at both processor architecture and application architecture levels are presented, such that both hardware and software adapt together, minimizing overall energy consumption under unpredictable, design-/compile-time scenarios.