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Modeling plays an important role in developing real-time scheduling and dynamic reconfiguration techniques in embedded systems. As this book emphasizes on high level optimizations, we require simple, fast, and yet accurate estimation models for power, energy as well as temperature since the physical prototype is not available or prohibitively expensive in early design stages. For the same reason, efficient evaluation methods are also needed to reflect real designs. In this chapter, we first describe how to model a real-time multitasking system supporting dynamic reconfigurations. Next, we describe system-wide energy and thermal models. Finally, we look at how to evaluate the effects of various optimization techniques in general. These models will be used in all subsequent chapters.
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Note that not all the benchmarks from each suite are used in this book.
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Wang, W., Mishra, P., Ranka, S. (2013). Modeling of Real-Time and Reconfigurable Systems. In: Dynamic Reconfiguration in Real-Time Systems. Embedded Systems, vol 4. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0278-7_2
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