Title :
A system-level approach to power/performance optimization in wearable computers
Author :
Smailagic, Asim ; Reilly, Dennis ; Siewiorek, D.P.
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Complex Engineered Syst., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract :
The paper describes a system-level design approach to the power and performance of Carnegie Mellon´s wearable computers dedicated to speech processing-the Speech Translator Smart Modules. While processor speed and type affect power consumption and performance, memory size and type of secondary storage have a significant influence as well. A system-level approach to power/performance optimization is described that improved the metric of (performance/(weight*volume*power)) by over a factor of 300 through the four generations of wearable computers for speech processing
Keywords :
computer power supplies; performance evaluation; portable computers; speech processing; Speech Translator Smart Modules; memory size; power consumption; power/performance optimization; processor speed; secondary storage; speech processing; system-level approach; wearable computers; Hardware; Optimization; Prototypes; Wearable computers;
Conference_Titel :
VLSI, 2000. Proceedings. IEEE Computer Society Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0534-1
DOI :
10.1109/IWV.2000.844523
