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Co-Design of Systems-On-Chip for Sustainability

Authors Jan Spieck , Dominik Walter , Jan Waschkeit, Jürgen Teich

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  • Computer systems organization → Embedded and cyber-physical systems
  • Hardware → Power and energy
  • Hardware → Chip-level power issues
  • Computer systems organization → System on a chip
  • Social and professional topics → Sustainability
  • Hardware → Impact on the environment
Keywords
  • System-on-Chip
  • Sustainability
  • Multi-objective Optimization
  • Design Space Exploration
  • Embedded Systems
  • Carbon Emissions

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Abstract

This paper introduces a novel approach to the co-design of sustainable embedded systems through multi-objective design space exploration (DSE). We propose a two-phase methodology that optimizes both the multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSoC) architecture and application mappings, considering sustainability, reliability, performance, and cost as optimization objectives of equal importance. Unlike existing approaches, our method thereby accounts for both operational and embodied emissions, providing a more comprehensive assessment of sustainability. The first phase employs intra-application DSEs to explore Pareto-optimal constraint graphs for each application. The second phase, an inter-application DSE, combines these results to explore sustainable target architectures and corresponding application mappings. Our approach incorporates detailed models for embodied emissions (scope 1 and scope 2), operational emissions, reliability, performance, and cost. The evaluation demonstrates that our sustainability-aware DSE is able to explore design spaces overlooked by traditional approaches, supported by superior results in four key objectives. This enables the development of more environmentally friendly embedded systems while still achieving high performance and reliability.

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Jan Spieck, Dominik Walter, Jan Waschkeit, and Jürgen Teich. Co-Design of Systems-On-Chip for Sustainability. In Sixth Workshop on Next Generation Real-Time Embedded Systems (NG-RES 2025). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 128, pp. 3:1-3:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.NG-RES.2025.3

Author Details

Jan Spieck
  • Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany
Dominik Walter
  • Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany
Jan Waschkeit
  • Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany
Jürgen Teich
  • Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany

Funding

  • Spieck, Jan: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – Project number 146371743 – TRR 89: Invasive Computing
  • Walter, Dominik: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – Project number 146371743 – TRR 89: Invasive Computing

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