Temperature Variation Characterization and Thermal Management of Multicore Architectures

Inherent temperature variation among cores in a multicore architecture can be caused by a number of factors including process variation, cooling and packaging imperfections, and even placement of the chip in the module. Current dynamic thermal management ...

Recently, processor power density has been increasing at an alarming rate resulting in high on-chip temperature. Higher temperature increases current leakage and causes poor reliability. In this paper, we propose a Predictive Dynamic Thermal Management (...

Three-dimensional integration provides a new way of performance growth for microprocessor architectures. While a recent studies report promising performance improvement numbers, majority of the processor stacking options are thermally-limited. Elevated ...