System-Level Design Methods for Low-Energy Architectures Containing Variable Voltage Processors

This paper focuses on system-level design methods for low energy consumption in architectures employing variable-voltage processors. Two lowenergy design flows are introduced. The first, Speed-up and Stretch, is based on
the performance vs. low-energy design trade-off. The second, Eye-on-Energy, is based on energy sensitive scheduling and assignment techniques. Both of the
approaches presented in this paper use simulated annealing to generate task-toprocessor assignments. Also, both use list-scheduling based methods for scheduling.
The set of experiments presented here characterize the newly introduced approaches, while giving an idea about the cost vs. low-energy and performance vs. low-energy design trade-offs a designer has to make.