Thermal hot spots and high temperature gradients degrade reliability and performance, and increase cooling costs and leakage power. In this paper, we explore the benefits of temper...
Ayse Kivilcim Coskun, T. T. Rosing, Keith Whisnant...
- 3D IC technologies can help to improve circuit performance and lower power consumption by reducing wirelength. Also, 3D IC technology can be used to realize heterogeneous system-...
— Memories are increasingly dominating Systems on Chip (SoC) designs and thus contribute a large percentage of the total system’s power dissipation, area and reliability. In th...
Amin Khajeh, Aseem Gupta, Nikil Dutt, Fadi J. Kurd...
Abstract— As the semiconductor technology continues its marching toward the deep sub-micron domain, the strong relation between leakage current and temperature becomes critical i...
Power density has been increasing at an alarming rate in recent processor generations resulting in high on-chip temperature. Higher temperature results in poor reliability and inc...