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Towards this aim, introducing an operating system (OS) that provides high-level features (multitasking, hardware abstraction, and dynamic operation) as the core element of adaptive deep brain stimulation (aDBS) controllers could expand the capabilities and development speed of new control strategies. However, such software frameworks also introduce substantial power consumption overhead that could render this solution unfeasible for implantable devices. To address this, in this work four techniques to reduce this overhead are proposed and evaluated: a tick-less idle operation mode, reduced and dynamic sampling, buffered read mode, and duty cycling. A dual threshold adaptive deep brain stimulation algorithm for suppressing pathological oscillatory neural activity was implemented along with the proposed energy saving techniques on an energy-efficient OS, YetiOS, running on a STM32L476RE microcontroller. The system was then tested using an emulation environment coupled to a mean field model of the parkinsonian basal ganglia to simulate local field potential (LFPs) which acted as a biomarker for the controller. The OS-based controller alone introduced a power consumption overhead of 10.03 mW for a sampling rate of 1 kHz. This was reduced to 12 \u03bcW by applying the proposed tick-less idle mode, dynamic sampling, buffered read and duty cycling techniques. The OS-based controller using the proposed methods can facilitate rapid and flexible testing and implementation of new control methods. 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