Is dark silicon useful? Harnessing the four horsemen of the coming dark silicon apocalypse

Proceedings - Design Automation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1131-1136

  Taylor, Michael B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

dark silicon; Dennardian scaling; dim silicon; multicore; near threshold; specialization; utilization wall

Indexed keywords

DENNARDIAN SCALING; HARDWARE DESIGNERS; MULTI CORE; NEAR THRESHOLD; NEW FORMS; ORDERS-OF-MAGNITUDE; PROCESS GENERATION; SILICON AREA; SILICON CHIP; SPECIALIZATION;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 84863554397     PISSN: 0738100X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2228360.2228567     Document Type: Conference Paper

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