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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.PARMA-DITAM.2021.3
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-136390
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2021/13639/
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Magnani, Gabriele ; Cattaneo, Daniele ; Chiari, Michele ; Agosta, Giovanni

The Impact of Precision Tuning on Embedded Systems Performance: A Case Study on Field-Oriented Control

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Abstract

Field Oriented Control (FOC) is an industry-standard strategy for controlling induction motors and other kinds of AC-based motors. This control scheme has a very high arithmetic intensity when implemented digitally - in particular it requires the use of trigonometric functions. This requirement contrasts with the necessity of increasing the control step frequency when required, and the minimization of power consumption in applications where conserving battery life is paramount such as drones. However, it also makes FOC well suited for optimization using precision tuning techniques. Therefore, we exploit the state-of-the-art FixM methodology to optimize a miniapp simulating a typical FOC application by applying precision tuning of trigonometric functions. The FixM approach itself was extended in order to implement additional algorithm choices to enable a trade-off between execution time and code size. With the application of FixM on the miniapp, we achieved a speedup up to 278%, at a cost of an error in the output less than 0.1%.

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@InProceedings{magnani_et_al:OASIcs.PARMA-DITAM.2021.3,
  author =	{Magnani, Gabriele and Cattaneo, Daniele and Chiari, Michele and Agosta, Giovanni},
  title =	{{The Impact of Precision Tuning on Embedded Systems Performance: A Case Study on Field-Oriented Control}},
  booktitle =	{12th Workshop on Parallel Programming and Run-Time Management Techniques for Many-core Architectures and 10th Workshop on Design Tools and Architectures for Multicore Embedded Computing Platforms (PARMA-DITAM 2021)},
  pages =	{3:1--3:13},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-181-8},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{88},
  editor =	{Bispo, Jo\~{a}o and Cherubin, Stefano and Flich, Jos\'{e}},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2021/13639},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-136390},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.PARMA-DITAM.2021.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: Approximate Computing, Field-oriented control, Precision Tuning}
}

Keywords: Approximate Computing, Field-oriented control, Precision Tuning
Collection: 12th Workshop on Parallel Programming and Run-Time Management Techniques for Many-core Architectures and 10th Workshop on Design Tools and Architectures for Multicore Embedded Computing Platforms (PARMA-DITAM 2021)
Issue Date: 2021
Date of publication: 02.03.2021

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