TaSaT: Thermal-Aware Scheduling and Tuning Algorithm for Heterogeneous and Configurable Embedded Systems.

Heterogeneous and configurable systems (HaCS) have been widely used to meet stringent runtime performance and energy constraints in embedded systems. However, no prior work has addressed the emerging runtime thermal constraints in these systems. To leverage HaCS' capabilities to meet thermal constraints, in addition to performance and energy constraints, we propose TaSaT, a Thermal-aware Scheduling and Tuning algorithm for HaCS. TaSaT reduces HaCS temperature while meeting performance and energy constraints during runtime, without a priori knowledge of applications.