An imprecise computation model in reducing power consumption of flash memory for portable devices

A methodology is proposed to transform the power consumption problem for flash memory storage of a hard real-time embedded system into an imprecise computation model. Also, based on imprecise computation models, two scheduling algorithms have been developed to minimize the total power consumptions of the online service requests (i.e., tasks) for a flash memory of a hard real-time embedded system. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first idea to solve the power consumption problem of a hard real-time embedded system using imprecise computation models.