Due to high levels of integration and complexity, the design of multi-core SoCs has become increasingly challenging. In particular, energy consumption and distributing a single gl...
Integrating a large number of on-chip voltage regulators holds the promise of solving many power delivery challenges through strong local load regulation and facilitates systemlev...
Designers are moving toward chip-multiprocessors (CMPs) to leverage application parallelism for higher performance while keeping design complexity under control. However, to date,...
Philo Juang, Qiang Wu, Li-Shiuan Peh, Margaret Mar...
—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 ...
Enabled by the continuous advancement in fabrication technology, present day synchronous microprocessors include more than 100 million transistors and have clock speeds well in ex...