Peripheral Aware Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling for the Stargate Platform

Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVS) for micro-processors seeks to minimize the energy consumption of the processor by scaling its voltage and frequency according to the workload. But, it has one major drawback – it accounts for only the energy consumption of the core processor, and not even of the other sub-systems on the chip, leave alone the peripherals attached to it. This makes it necessary for us to analyze the DVS scheme for embedded system devices while taking into account all the peripherals. Finally, this project is able to show that the DVS scheme is not effective for such devices and it’s most optimal to operate such devices at the highest operating frequency.