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DAC
2012
ACM
12 years 1 months ago
Is dark silicon useful?: harnessing the four horsemen of the coming dark silicon apocalypse
Due to the breakdown of Dennardian scaling, the percentage of a silicon chip that can switch at full frequency is dropping exponentially with each process generation. This utiliza...
Michael B. Taylor
ASPDAC
2012
ACM
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12 years 7 months ago
GreenDroid: An architecture for the Dark Silicon Age
— The Dark Silicon Age kicked off with the transition to multicore and will be characterized by a wild chase for seemingly ever-more insane architectural designs. At the heart o...
Nathan Goulding-Hotta, Jack Sampson, Qiaoshi Zheng...
IPPS
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Code Compression and Decompression for Instruction Cell Based Reconfigurable Systems
Code compression has been applied to embedded systems to minimize the silicon area utilized for program memories, and lower the power consumption. More recently, it has become a n...
Nazish Aslam, Mark Milward, Ioannis Nousias, Tughr...
SLIP
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Through-silicon-via aware interconnect prediction and optimization for 3D stacked ICs
Individual dies in 3D integrated circuits are connected using throughsilicon-vias (TSVs). TSVs not only increase manufacturing cost, but also incur silicon area, delay, and power ...
Dae Hyun Kim, Saibal Mukhopadhyay, Sung Kyu Lim