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A Control-Theoretic Approach to Dynamic Voltage Scheduling Ankush Varma, Brinda Ganesh, Mainak Sen, Suchismita Roy Choudhury, Lakshmi Srinivasan, and Bruce Jacob Dept. of Electrical Computer Engineering University of Maryland at College Park College Park, MD 20742 /~blj/embedded/ {ankush,blj}@ ABSTRACT 1. INTRODUCTION The development of energy-conscious embedded and/or mobile sys- Battery life (i.e. energy supply and rate of depletion) and execution- tems exposes a trade-off between energy consumption and system time performance are arguably the two chief parameters determining performance. Recent microprocessors have incorporated dynamic the usability of mobile embedded devices such as PDAs, cellphones, voltage scaling as a tool that system software can use to explore this wearables, and handheld/notebook computers. The problem is that trade-off. Developing appropriate heuristics to control this feature is the goals of high performance and low energy consumption are at a non-trivial venture; as has been shown in the past, voltage-scaling odds with each other: while successive generations of general-pur- heuristics that closely track perceived performance requirements do pose microprocessors have realized improved performance levels, not save much energy, while those that save the most energy tend to they have also become more power