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Overhead Compensation Technique to Enhance the Accuracy of a Software Timer for Light-weight Embedded Device

경량 임베디드 디바이스 환경에서 소프트웨어 타이머의 정확성 향상을 위한 오버헤드 보정기법

  • 김희철 (대구대학교 정보통신공학부)
  • Received : 2019.02.27
  • Accepted : 2019.07.22
  • Published : 2019.08.30
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Abstract

As light-weight embedded devices become widely used in the area of low-power networking and high-precision sensor data acquisition, support for time-critical applications becomes essential for the light-weight embedded devices. This paper addresses the accuracy issue of a software timer for small or tiny embedded devices equiped with light-weight MCUs(Micro controller units). We first explore the characteristics of overhead in a typical implementation of a software timer, and then measure the overhead through a realistic implementation. Using the measurement result, we propose an overhead compensation technique which reduces the overhead from the hardware timer-tick.

경량 임베디드 디바이스가 저전력 네트워킹뿐만 아니라 고정밀 센서 데이터 획득과 같은 영역에서 널리 활용되면서 소프트웨어 타이머에 대한 높은 시간정확성이 요구된다. 이 논문은 경량 MCU(Micro controller unit)를 장착한 임베디드 디바이스 환경에서 소프트웨어 타이머의 정확성 문제를 다룬다. 먼저, 소프트웨어 타이머의 전형적 구현 모델을 구현할 때 오차를 발생시키는 주요 오버헤드의 유형을 면밀히 분석한 후에 실제 환경에서 오버헤드를 측정한다. 이 오버헤드를 타이머 설정주기에 반영하는 오버헤드 보정 기법을 통해 소프트웨어 타이머의 정확성을 향상시킬 수 있다는 점을 검증한다.

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