Open-PEOPLE: Open- Power and Energy Optimization Platform and Estimator

Abstract—This paper presents the Open-PEOPLE project that intends to provide a platform dedicated to power and energy mea-surement, estimation and optimization for complete embedded systems. Such systems include complex hardware components (FPGA, DSP, GPP, SoC, MPSoC, Memory...), an operating system (real time or not) and embedded applications. The project is open to the designers and developers community through a software platform made of a web portal and a standalone application gathering power and energy estimation tools, and a library of power models. The web portal is coupled to the hardware platform which is dedicated to power measurements on real boards in order to enrich the models library. Objectives of this project include the development of methods to perform power consumption characterisation of complete embedded systems. It aims to provide a set of tools to analyse and optimize power consumption at different levels of abstraction during the design process. I