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LCTES 2017
Wed 21 - Thu 22 June 2017 Barcelona, Spain
co-located with PLDI 2017

Energy harvesting techniques become increasingly popular as power supplies for embedded systems. However, the harvested energy is intrinsically unstable. Thus, the program execution may be interrupted frequently. Although the development of non-volatile processors (NVP) can save and restore execution states, both hardware and software challenges exist for energy harvesting powered embedded systems. On the hardware side, existing power detector only signals the ``poor'' quality of the harvested power based on a preset threshold voltage. The inappropriate setting of this threshold will make the NVP system suffer from either unnecessary checkpointings or checkpointing failures. On the software side, not all tasks can be checkpointed. Once the power is off, these tasks will have to restart from the beginning. In this paper, a task scheduler is proposed to maximize task progress by prioritizing uncheckpointable tasks if power is weak so that they can finish before the power failure. To assist task scheduling, three additional modules including voltage monitor, checkpointing handler, and routine handler, are proposed. Experimental results show increased overall task progress and reduced energy consumption.

Thu 22 Jun

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10:30 - 12:10
Session 3: Non-Volatile Memory/Processor and RTOSLCTES 2017 at Vertex WS208
Chair(s): Hanjun Kim POSTECH
10:30
25m
Talk
Towards Memory-Efficient Processing-in-Memory Architecture for Convolutional Neural Networks
LCTES 2017
Yi Wang Shenzhen University, Mingxu Zhang Shenzhen University, Jing Yang Harbin Institute of Technology
10:55
25m
Talk
Unified nvTCAM and sTCAM Architecture for Improving Packet Matching Performance
LCTES 2017
Xianzhong Ding Shandong University, Zhiyong Zhang Shandong University, Zhiping Jia Shandong University, Lei Ju Shandong University, Mengying Zhao Shandong University, Huawei Huang The University of Aizu
11:20
25m
Talk
A Lightweight Progress Maximization Scheduler for Non-Volatile Processor Under Unstable Energy Harvesting
LCTES 2017
Chen Pan , Mimi Xie Oklahoma State University, Yongpan Liu Tsinghua University, Yanzhi Wang Syracuse University, Jason Xue City University of Hong Kong, China, Yiran Chen University of Pittsburgh, Jingtong Hu Oklahoma State University
11:45
25m
Talk
OSEK-V: Application-Specific RTOS Instantiation in Hardware
LCTES 2017
Christian Dietrich , Daniel Lohmann Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Germany