We investigate trade-offs in microprocessor frequency and system power achievable for low temperature operation in scaled high leakage technologies by combining refrigeration with...
Arman Vassighi, Ali Keshavarzi, Siva Narendra, Ger...
Modern high performance processors employ advanced techniques for thermal management, which rely on accurate readings of on-die thermal sensors. As the importance of thermal effec...
This paper studies microprocessor floorplanning considering thermal and throughput optimization. We first develop a stochastic heat diffusion model taking into account the appl...
Full-chip thermal monitoring is an important and challenging issue in today’s microprocessor design. In this paper, we propose a new information-theoretic framework to quantitat...
Huapeng Zhou, Xin Li, Chen-Yong Cher, Eren Kursun,...
Operating an integrated circuit at the prescribed nominal supply voltage is not preferable for reliable circuit operation under temperature fluctuations. A design methodology base...