Title: Efficient memory control for avionics and embedded systems
Authors: Pinchas Weisberg; Yair Wiseman
Addresses: Computer Science Department, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel ' Computer Science Department, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel
Abstract: Modern aircrafts have seen a significant growth of avionics systems. Most of new aircrafts have systems for navigation, automatic flight control, collision avoidance systems, flight data recorder, weather radar system as well as communication and monitoring systems. All of these systems use embedded computer systems with increasing memory requirements. In order to reduce the electricity consumed by these systems, we suggest detecting the portion of the computer memory that is actually used. The other portion can be temporarily shut down and turned on again when needed. Such a shut down can notably reduce the electricity consumption of the avionics systems.
Keywords: avionics; embedded systems; energy-aware systems; memory management; address space; memory control; energy consumption; energy efficiency.
International Journal of Embedded Systems, 2013 Vol.5 No.4, pp.225 - 238
Received: 17 Aug 2012
Accepted: 28 May 2013
Published online: 19 Jul 2014 *