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Software Strategies for Portable Computer Energy Management (1998)
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@MISC{Lorch98softwarestrategies,
author = {Jacob R Lorch and Alan Jay Smith},
title = {Software Strategies for Portable Computer Energy Management},
year = {1998}
}
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Abstract
Limiting the energy consumption of computers, especially portables, is becoming increasingly important. Thus, new energy-saving computer components and architectures have been and continue to be developed. Many architectural features have both high-performance and low-power modes, with the mode selection under software control. The problem is to minimize energy consumption while not significantly impacting the effective performance. We group the software control issues as follows: transition, load-change, and adaptation. The transition problem is deciding when to switch to low-power, reduced-functionality modes. The load-change problem is determining how to modify the load on a component so that it can make further use of its low-power modes. The adaptation problem is determining how to create software that allows components to be used in novel, power-saving ways. We survey implemented and proposed solutions to software energy management issues created by existing and suggested hardware innovations.
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software strategy portable computer energy management energy consumption mode selection hardware innovation adaptation problem power-saving way many architectural feature software control issue software control software energy management issue low-power mode load-change problem transition problem reduced-functionality mode effective performance new energy-saving computer component
