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Exploring temperature-aware design in low-power MPSoCs

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Exploring temperature-aware design in low-power MPSoCs
: The power density in high performance systems continues to rise with every process technology generation, thereby increasing the operating temperature and creating ‘hot spots’ on the die. As a result, the performance, reliability and power consumption of the system degrade. To avoid these ‘hot spots’, ‘temperature-aware’ design has become a must. For low-power embedded systems though, it is not clear whether similar thermal problems occur. These systems have very different characteristics from the high performance ones: they consume hundred times less power, they are based on a multi-processor architecture with lots of embedded memory and rely on cheap packaging solutions. In this paper, we investigate the need for temperature aware design in a low-power systems-on-a-chip and provide guidelines to delimit the conditions for which temperature-aware design is needed.
Giacomo Paci, Francesco Poletti, Luca Benini, Paul
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Type Journal
Year 2007
Where IJES
Authors Giacomo Paci, Francesco Poletti, Luca Benini, Paul Marchal
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