Designing for Dark Silicon: A Methodological Perspective on Energy Efficient Systems
Document Type
Conference Paper
Journal/Book Title/Conference
ISLPED '12: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM/IEEE international symposium on Low power electronics and design
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Publication Date
7-30-2012
First Page
255
Last Page
260
Abstract
The emergence of dark silicon - a fundamental design constraint absent in the past generations - brings intriguing challenges and opportunities in microprocessor design. To gracefully embrace dark silicon, design methodologies must adapt themselves to identify progressive systems that can effectively exploit the growing dark silicon. We demonstrate that relying on traditional design metrics may lead to sub-optimal design choices with the rise of the dark silicon area. We provide a new metric to guide a dark silicon aware system design and propose a stochastic optimization algorithm for dark silicon aware multicore system design. Our design approach shows 7-23% benefit in upcoming technology generations. © 2012 ACM.
Recommended Citation
Jason Allred, Sanghamitra Roy and Koushik Chakraborty, Designing for Dark Silicon: A Methodological Perspective on Energy Efficient Systems. IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), pp. 255-260, July 2012, Redondo Beach, CA.
