Articles

Note: These articles are copyrighted so I have restricted access to students in the class. Email me if you need access.

• G. Neville-Neil, “The truth about embedded systems,” in ACM Queue, Apr. 2003.
• M. Tubaishat and S. Madria, “Sensor networks: An overview,” in IEEE Potentials, vol. 22, pp. 20–23, Apr. 2003.
• Joseph Polastre, Robert Szewczyk, Alan Mainwaring, David Culler, and John Anderson, “Analysis of wireless sensor networks for habitat monitoring,” in Wireless sensor networks, pp. 399–423, 2004.
• V. Agarwal, M. Hrisikesh, S. Keckler, and D. Burger, “Clock rate vs. IPC: The end of the road for conventional microarchitectures,” in Proc. Int. Symp. Computer Architecture, pp. 276–283, June 2000.
• Zeshan Chishti and T. N. Vijaykumar, “Wire delay is not a problem for SMT (in the near future),” in Proc. Int. Symp. Computer Architecture, pp. 40–51, Jun. 2004.
• Sandy Irani, Sandeep Shukla, and Rajeesh Gupta, “Online Strategies for Dynamic Power Management in Systems with Multiple Power-Saving States,” in ACM Trans. Embedded Computing Systems, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 325–346, Aug. 2003.
• M. Li, R. Sasanka, S. V. Adve, Y.–K. Chen, and E. Debes, “ALP: Efficient Support for All Levels of Parallelism for Complex Media,” in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Technical Report, Jul. 2005.
• William J. Dally, and Brian Towles, “Route Packets, Not Wires: On-Chip Interconnection Networks,” in Proc. Design Automation Conf., pp. 684–689, Jun. 2001.
• Umit Y. Ogras, and Radu Marculescu, “Energy- and Performance- Driven NoC Communication Architectures Synthesis Using a Decomposition Approach,” in Proc. Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conf., pp. 352–357, Mar. 2005.
• Linda Geppert, “The New Indelible Memories,” IEEE Spectrum, pp. 49–54, Mar. 2003.
• Lei Yang, Robert P. Dick, Haris Lekatsas, and Srimat Chakradhar, “CRAMES: Compressed RAM for Embedded Systems,” in Proc. Int. Conf. Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis, Sep. 2005.
• K. S. Vallerio, Lin Zhong, and N. K. Jha, “Energy-efficient graphical user interface design,” To appear in IEEE Trans. Mobile Computing, 2006.
• V. Tiwari, S. Malik, and A. Wolfe, “Power analysis of embedded software: A first step toward software power minimization,” in IEEE Trans. VLSI Systems, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 437–445, Apr. 1994.
• P. Kalla, H. Henkel, and X. S. Hu, “SEA: Fast Power Estimation for Micro-Architectures,” in Proc. Asia & South Pacific Design Automation Conf., pp. 600–605, Feb. 2003.
• R. P. Dick, G. Lakshminarayana, A. Raghunathan, and N. K. Jha, “Analysis of Power Dissipation in Real-Time Operating Systems,” IEEE Trans. Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 615–627, May. 2003.
• Surupa Biswas, Matthew Simpson, and Rajeev Barua, “Memory Overflow Protection for Embedded Systems using Run-Time Checks, Reuse and Compression,” Proc. Int. Conf. Compilers, Architecture & Synthesis for Embedded Systems, pp. 280–291, Sep. 2004.
• Hui Dai, Michael Neufeld, and Richard Han, “ELF: An Efficient Log-Structured Flash File System for Micro Sensor Networks,” in Int. Conf. Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, pp. 176–187, Nov. 2004.
• Yuvraj Agarwal, Curt Schurgers, and Rajesh Gupta, “Dynamic Power Management using On Demand Paging for Networked Embedded Systems,” in Proc. Asia & South Pacific Design Automation Conf., pp. 755–759, Jan. 2005.
• A. Sinha, and A. Chandrakasan, “Dynamic power management in wireless sensor networks,” in IEEE Design and Test of Computers, pp. 62–74, Mar. 2001.
• Johann Blieberger, Thomas Fahringer, and Bernhard Scholz, “Symbolic Cache Analysis for Real-Time Systems,” in Real-Time Systems, vol. 18, no. 2/3, pp. 181-215, 2000.
• P. Levis, and D. Culler, “Mate: A Tiny Virtual Machine for Sensor Networks,” in Proc. Int. Conf. Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Oct. 2002.
• P. Pillai, and K. G. Shin, “Real-Time Dynamic Voltage Scaling for Low-Power Embedded Operating Systems,” in Proc. ACM Symp. Operating Systems Principles, pp. 89–102, Dec. 2001.
• Rajeshwari Banakar, Stefan Steinke, Bo-Sik Lee, M. Balakrishnan, and Peter Marwedel, “Scratchpad Memory: A Design Alternative for Cache On-Chip Memory in Embedded Systems,” in Proc. Int. Wkshp. Hardware/Software Co-Design, pp. 73–78, May. 2002.

Quick overview of embedded operating systems

• Embedix: one of many embedded versions of Linux
• Windows Embedded
• eCos
• QNX
• VxWorks
• μClinux
• TinyOS: very light-weight sensor network operating system
• MANTIS OS: multithreaded wireless sensor network operating system
• Brian Dean's threads: a lightweight AVR threads implementation

References

• W. Strunk Jr. and E. B. White, The Elements of Style, Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 2000.
• International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors

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