This book introduces Software Thermal Management (STM) as a means of reducing power consumption in a computing system in order to manage heat, improve component reliability and increase system safety. Readers will benefit from this pragmatic guide to the field of STM for embedded systems and its catalog of software power management techniques. Since thermal management is a key bottleneck in embedded systems design, this book focuses on root cause of heat in embedded systems: power. Since software has an enormous impact on power consumption in an embedded system, this book urges software engineers to manage heat effectively by understanding, categorizing and developing new ways to reduce static and dynamic power consumption. Whereas most books on thermal management describe mechanisms to remove heat, this book focuses on ways for software engineers to avoid generating heat in the first place.

A systematic guide to the theory, applications, and design of thermal management for LED packaging In Thermal Management for Opto-electronics Packaging and Applications, a team of distinguished engineers and researchers deliver an authoritative discussion of the fundamental theory and practical design required for LED product development. Readers will get a solid grounding in thermal management strategies and find up-to-date coverage of heat transfer fundamentals, thermal modeling, and thermal simulation and design. The authors explain cooling technologies and testing techniques that will help the reader evaluate device performance and accelerate the design and manufacturing cycle. In this all-inclusive guide to LED package thermal management, the book provides the latest advances in thermal engineering design and opto-electronic devices and systems. The book also includes: A thorough introduction to thermal conduction and solutions, including discussions of thermal resistance and high thermal conductivity materials Comprehensive explorations of thermal radiation and solutions, including angular- and spectra-regulation radiative cooling Practical discussions of thermally enhanced thermal interfacial materials (TIMs) Complete treatments of hybrid thermal management in downhole devices Perfect for engineers, researchers, and industry professionals in the fields of LED packaging and heat transfer, Thermal Management for Opto-electronics Packaging and Applications will also benefit advanced students focusing on the design of LED product design.

This Expert Guide gives you the knowledge, methods and techniques to develop and manage embedded systems successfully. It shows that teamwork, development procedures, and program management require unique and wide ranging skills to develop a system, skills that most people can attain with persistence and effort. With this book you will: - Understand the various business aspects of a project from budgets and schedules through contracts and market studies - Understand the place and timing for simulations, bench tests, and prototypes, and understand the differences between various formal methods such as FMECA, FTA, ETA, reliability, hazard analysis, and risk analysis - Learn general design concerns such as the user interface, interfaces and partitioning, DFM, DFA, DFT, tradeoffs such as hardware versus software, buy versus build, processor choices, and algorithm choices, acquisition concerns, and interactions and comparisons between electronics, functions, software, mechanics, materials, security, maintenance, and support - Covers the life cycle for developing an embedded system: program management, procedures for design and development, manufacturing, maintenance, logistics, and legal issues - Includes proven and practical techniques and advice on tackling critical issues reflecting the authors' expertise developed from years of experience

"This book covers a great variety of topics such as materials, environment, electronics, and computing, offering a vital source of information detailing the latest architectures, frameworks, methodologies, and research on energy-aware systems and networking for sustainable initiatives"--

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th National Conference on Embedded System Technology, ESTC 2015, held in Beijing, China, in October 2015. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 papers. The topics cover a broad range of fields focusing on research about embedded system technologies, such as smart hardware, system and network, applications and algorithm.

This book introduces the state-of-the-art in research in parallel and distributed embedded systems, which have been enabled by developments in silicon technology, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), wireless communications, computer networking, and digital electronics. These systems have diverse applications in domains including military and defense, medical, automotive, and unmanned autonomous vehicles. The emphasis of the book is on the modeling and optimization of emerging parallel and distributed embedded systems in relation to the three key design metrics of performance, power and dependability. Key features: Includes an embedded wireless sensor networks case study to help illustrate the modeling and optimization of distributed embedded systems. Provides an analysis of multi-core/many-core based embedded systems to explain the modeling and optimization of parallel embedded systems. Features an application metrics estimation model; Markov modeling for fault tolerance and analysis; and queueing theoretic modeling for performance evaluation. Discusses optimization approaches for distributed wireless sensor networks; high-performance and energy-efficient techniques at the architecture, middleware and software levels for parallel multicore-based embedded systems; and dynamic optimization methodologies. Highlights research challenges and future research directions. The book is primarily aimed at researchers in embedded systems; however, it will also serve as an invaluable reference to senior undergraduate and graduate students with an interest in embedded systems research.