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Chapter 3 Embedded Computing in the Emerging Smart Grid

Chapter 3 Embedded Computing in the Emerging Smart Grid. Arindam Mukherjee, ValentinaCecchi , Rohith Tenneti , and Aravind Kailas Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Information technology back bone of smart grid. Data.

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Chapter 3 Embedded Computing in the Emerging Smart Grid

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  1. Chapter 3Embedded Computing in the Emerging Smart Grid ArindamMukherjee, ValentinaCecchi, RohithTenneti, and AravindKailas Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

  2. Information technology back bone of smart grid

  3. Data • Smart meters in advanced metering infrastructure sensor/control information • Renewable and less predictable power sources status/control information • Data collected by remote terminal units from field units

  4. Communication • Secure transfer encryption/decryption • State of the art transfer protocol for communication via power lines/wireless/dedicated wirelines • Two way communication at all levels

  5. Compute and Control • Computations for signal processing • Computations for cyber security • Power flow calculations for control • Intelligent control for optimal power usage

  6. Computations in smart grid? • Analysis and Control • Sensing and Measurement infrastructure • Communication and security

  7. Intel Atom (state of the art) Advantages • In-order execution • Low power • Lesser die space Disadvantages • Memory access has long latencies for floating point and SIMD instructions • In-order execution (Long latency) Intel Atom Pine trail

  8. ARM Cortex A8 (state of the art) Advantage • In-order cores • Low power • Lesser area Disadvantages • Deep pipelines, introduce latency • Instruction level parallelism cannot be exploited ARM Cortex A8 neon integer pipeline

  9. New processor? • Microarchitecture is currently not optimized for the smart grid applications • Customize architecture for specific computations for better efficiency • Efficiency • Latency and throughput requirements for real time applications • Consume lesser power compared to state of the art processors • One embedded processor to handle varied applications

  10. Design space exploration

  11. Design space exploration - Basic Steps • Identify the application and profile the benchmarks • Identify the processor simulators • Optimize the architecture

  12. Applications • Power flow studies – Aid in control • Fast fourier transform – Signal processing • Blowfish encryption – Security The benchmarks are optimized based on the architecture.

  13. Processor simulators • Casper - A Sparc V9 based Cycle accurate chip-multithreaded Architecture Simulator for Performance, Energy and aRea analysis. Based on open sourced Sun’s Ultra Sparc-T1 architecture. • MPTLSim - A cycle-accurate, full-system simulator for x86-64 multicore architectures with coherent caches • MV5 - An Event-driven, Cycle-accurate Simulator for Heterogeneous Manycore Architectures

  14. Casper Customize • Cores on chip • Threads per core • L1, L2 cache size/associativity/banks • Size of load miss queue, missed instruction list, data fill queue, branch address buffer, store buffer, cache fill buffer • Set instruction/data cache latency Measure • Power • Area • CPI • Throughput • Latency • Pipeline stalls • Wait time for threads • Instruction/data cache misses

  15. MPTLSim • All parameters listed in Casper are configurable in MPTLSim • Additional features • Full system capability • Implements branch prediction • Out of order execution (no In-order execution) • Configure RTL models of the pipeline units

  16. MV5 • Implements all features of the earlier simulators (no support for full system emulation) • Additional features • X-86, Alpha, Sparc all architectures are supported • Heterogeneous configuration in terms of the microarchitecture features like SIMD/Out of order/In order are supported • Different On chip networks can be explored • Run different benchmarks on different cores Example configuration

  17. Optimal configuration Few methods • Linear/Non-linear regression • Genetic algorithms • Artificial neural networks • Strength Pareto evolution • Fuzzy logic Algorithms for best initial training set • Random sampling • Placket-Burman design of experiments • Latin hypercube

  18. Open research • Benchmark suite development for the smart grid applications • Operating system for the smart grid applications

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