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The steadily increasing performance of RF-powered devices implies also a rise in power consumption. To counteract this trend, it is mandatory to accomplish power optimizations at every stage in the HW/SW co-design process. Since the momentarily available energy depends on the power profile of anterior tasks, the behavior of the RF-interface has to be considered in the optimization process to achieve a maximum of efficiency by maintaining the system stability.This paper introduces an accurate discrete-time model of the energy source of RF-powered devices. Based on this model, a power profile analysis tool has been developed, which identifies automatically critical regions for the energy source in the current profile of the system. The use of this framework is illustrated in a software optimization process, which intends to eliminate the detected critical areas.

The complexity of mobile devices is continuously growing due to the increasing requirements on performance. In portable systems such as smart cards, not only performance is an important attribute, but also the power and energy consumed by a given application. It is mandatory to accomplish software power optimizations based on accurate power consumption models characterized for the processor. Both the optimization and the characterization are carried out mostly manually and are thus very time consuming processes. This paper presents an environment for automated instruction set characterization, based on physical power measurements. Further, an optimization system is presented that allows an automated reduction of power consumption based on a compiler optimization.

The steadily increasing performance ofmobile devices implies also a rise in power consumption. To counteract this trend it is mandatory to accomplish software power optimizations based on accurate power consumption models characterized for the processor This paper presents an environment for automated instruction set characterization based on physical power measurements. For an accurate current measurement a high performance sampling technique has been established, which can be either clock or energy driven. The performance of those techniques is analyzed and the advantages over the conventional solution ofa series resistor are discussed.

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