Special Issue on Energy Efficient Architectures for Embedded Systems

Submitted by Nuno Roma
http://si.eurasip.org/issues/65/energy-efficient-architectures-for-embedded/

EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems (Springer)
Special issue on Energy Efficient Architectures for Embedded Systems

Submissions Due: September 20, 2015
This special issue is mainly focused on the new design and development trends
of energy efficient processing architectures for embedded systems. Topics of
interest cover all aspects of this research domain, including not only
architectures and specific design methods, but also more technological aspects
related to micro-architecture design, memory hierarchies, communication
mechanisms and tools/algorithms for energy/power management and control.

A significant boost in embedded computing systems performance has been
observed at several different domains, mostly due to technology scaling and to
the ever increasing exploitation of parallel processing architectures.

However, although conventional approaches relying on homogeneous/heterogeneous
chip-multiprocessor aggregates already allow achieving a significant
performance level, important compromises have to be established in order to
cope with the strict energy efficiency requirements imposed at the several
different embedded application domains (e.g. mobile, battery supplied and
hand-held devices).

As a consequence, energy efficiency is gradually becoming one fundamental
constraint and requisite for embedded systems design, often requiring the
adoption of new technologies and micro-architecture design approaches.

Topics of interest include:
– Computer architecture trends for energy efficiency in embedded systems
(heterogeneous parallel processing architectures; ISA diversity (e.g.
scalar/vector/VLIW/SMT) and morphable structures; run-time
reconfiguration/adaptation and dynamic scalability; CPU-accelerator co-design:
embedded GPUs, APUs, FPGAs, etc.; approximate computing techniques and
architectures)
– Energy/power management and control (run-time power/energy monitoring and
sensing; heat/power/energy models of embedded architectures; Dynamic Voltage
and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) and power/clock gating strategies; performance
vs. power/ energy scaling and management)
– Energy efficient memory hierarchy subsystems (caches and TLB organizations;
memory management policies; data reuse schemes; pre-fetching and data
streaming)
– Energy efficient communication and data-transfer subsystems (network on chip
with energy efficiency constraints; embedded networking and routing;
input/output peripheral interfaces)Tools and algorithms (models for
energy-aware computing; simulation tools for heat/power/energy estimation;
scheduling and task/thread migration policies for energy efficiency; operating
system support and energy management tools)
– Technologies and energy-aware solutions for embedded systems (embedded
processors and clusters (e.g. ARM’s big.LITTLE); embedded GPUs (e.g.,
NVIDIA’s Tegra, ARM’s Mali, Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR); embedded
SoCs and FPGAs (e.g. Xilinx’s Zynq, Altera’s Cyclone)

GUEST EDITORS:
– Nuno Roma, INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa
– Jose Luis Nunez-Yanez, University of Bristol