The EDA challenges in the dark silicon era

Muhammad Shafique; Siddharth Garg; Jörg Henkel; Diana Marculescu

doi:10.1145/2593069.2593229

The EDA challenges in the dark silicon era

Muhammad Shafique, Siddharth Garg, Jörg Henkel, Diana Marculescu

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Abstract

Technology scaling has resulted in smaller and faster transistors in successive technology generations. However, transistor power consumption no longer scales commensurately with integration density and, consequently, it is projected that in future technology nodes it will only be possible to simultaneously power on a fraction of cores on a multi-core chip in order to stay within the power budget. The part of the chip that is powered off is referred to as dark silicon and brings new challenges as well as opportunities for the design community, particularly in the context of the interaction of dark silicon with thermal, reliability and variability concerns. In this perspectives paper we describe these new challenges and opportunities, and provide preliminary experimental evidence in their support.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	DAC 2014 - 51st Design Automation Conference, Conference Proceedings
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	1-6
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9781479930173
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2593069.2593229
State	Published - 2014
Event	51st Annual Design Automation Conference, DAC 2014 - San Francisco, CA, United States Duration: Jun 2 2014 → Jun 5 2014

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Name	Proceedings - Design Automation Conference
ISSN (Print)	0738-100X

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Other	51st Annual Design Automation Conference, DAC 2014
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Francisco, CA
Period	6/2/14 → 6/5/14

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Computer Science Applications
Control and Systems Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Modeling and Simulation

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The EDA challenges in the dark silicon era. / Shafique, Muhammad; Garg, Siddharth; Henkel, Jörg et al.
DAC 2014 - 51st Design Automation Conference, Conference Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2014. p. 1-6 2593229 (Proceedings - Design Automation Conference).

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Shafique, M, Garg, S, Henkel, J & Marculescu, D 2014, The EDA challenges in the dark silicon era. in DAC 2014 - 51st Design Automation Conference, Conference Proceedings., 2593229, Proceedings - Design Automation Conference, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 1-6, 51st Annual Design Automation Conference, DAC 2014, San Francisco, CA, United States, 6/2/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2593069.2593229

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