The evolution of microprocessors has been hindered by their increasing power consumption and the heat generation speed on-die. High temperature impairs the processor’s reliabili...
Jun Yang 0002, Xiuyi Zhou, Marek Chrobak, Youtao Z...
Designing temperature-aware microarchitectures for microprocessors at new technologies is becoming a critical requirement due to the exponentially increasing on-chip power density...
—Localized heating-up creates thermal hotspots across the chip, with the integer register file ranked as the hottest unit in high-performance microprocessors. In this paper, we ...
Shuai Wang, Jie Hu, Sotirios G. Ziavras, Sung Woo ...
Power-related issues have become important considerations in current generation microprocessor design. One of these issues is that of elevated on-chip temperatures. This has an ad...
—The sustained push for performance, transistor count, and instruction level parallelism has reached a point where chip level power density issues are at the forefront of design ...