Benchmarking performance and energy efficiency of microprocessors for wireless sensor network applications

Author

Pesovic, U. ; Jovanovic, Z. ; Randjic, S. ; Markovic, D.

Author_Institution

Tech. Fac., Univ. of Kragujevac, Čačak, Serbia

fYear

2012

fDate

21-25 May 2012

Firstpage

743

Lastpage

747

Abstract

Energy efficiency is one of the most important design requirements in wireless sensor networks (WSN). In this paper, three performed benchmarks compared code size and execution speed of ARM Cortex-M series processors with processors which are commonly used in WSN. In addition, power consumption is taken into account in order to determine energy efficiency of tested processors. Results show that recently introduced ARM Cortex-M series processors are best choice for energy efficient WSN nodes according to all design criteria: power consumption, execution speed and code size.

Keywords

energy conservation; microprocessor chips; power consumption; wireless sensor networks; ARM Cortex-M series processors; benchmarking performance; code size; energy efficiency; energy efficient WSN nodes; execution speed; microprocessors; power consumption; wireless sensor network applications; Benchmark testing; Energy efficiency; Finite impulse response filter; Optimization; Power demand; Program processors; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

MIPRO, 2012 Proceedings of the 35th International Convention

Conference_Location

Opatija

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2577-6

Type

conf

Filename

6240743