Exploring temperature-aware design in low-power MPSoCs
by Giacomo Paci, Francesco Poletti, Luca Benini, Paul Marchal
International Journal of Embedded Systems (IJES), Vol. 3, No. 1/2, 2007

Abstract: The power density in high performance systems continues to rise with every process technology generation, thereby increasing the operating temperature and creating 'hot spots' on the die. As a result, the performance, reliability and power consumption of the system degrade. To avoid these 'hot spots', 'temperature-aware' design has become a must. For low-power embedded systems though, it is not clear whether similar thermal problems occur. These systems have very different characteristics from the high performance ones: e.g., they consume 100 times less power. Therefore, we provide in this paper guidelines to delimit the conditions for which temperature-aware design is needed.

Online publication date: Sun, 02-Dec-2007

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