Estimation of energy consumption and execution time in early phases of design lifecycle: an application to biomedical systems

Nowadays, embedded systems are present in a great many areas of human activity. ATMs, mobile phones, clocks, refrigerators, microwaves, scopes and routers are a few examples of embedded systems. Furthermore, advances in microelectronics have allowed for the development of embedded systems with several complex features, thereby upholding the development of powerful mobile mechanisms such as military gadgets and medical devices. These devices generally rely on constrained energy sources (e.g. a battery), in such a way that if the energy source is depleted, the system stops functioning. Hence estimating energy consumption in an early design phase can provide significant insights for designers about energy source lifetime as well as optimising systems parts.