Power and Performance Optimizations in Embedded Systems

Embedded Systems

• Definition of Embedded System, PCmag.com Encyclopedia

Power Supplies

• A Sound Way To Turn Heat Into Electricity. ScienceDaily (June 4, 2007)

Multicore and SoCs

• Patrick Leteinturier, Infineon Technologies. Multi-Core Processors: Driving the Evolution of Automotive Electronics Architectures. Embedded.com (09/16/07, 06:00:00 PM EDT).

• Niall Murphy. An uncertain future. Embedded Systems Design. (Embedded.com.) May 14, 2004.

• John Godfrey Saxe. Blind Men and the Elephant. 6 blind men have different interpretations after inspecting an elephant, old poem meant to illustrate the futility of religious arguments over something that no one has seen.

• Steve Leibson, Tensilica, Inc. Multicore microprocessors and embedded multicore SOCs have very different needs. Embedded.com. July 18, 2007.

• Markus Levy, Thomas M. Conte, Embedded Multicore Processors and Systems, IEEE Micro, pp. 7-9, May/June, 2009

Evolution of Embedded Processors

• SoC Quick Reference