DocumentCode
1458342
Title
The GreenDroid Mobile Application Processor: An Architecture for Silicon´s Dark Future
Author
Goulding-Hotta, N. ; Sampson, Jack ; Venkatesh, G. ; Garcia, S. ; Auricchio, J. ; Huang, P. ; Arora, Manish ; Nath, S. ; Bhatt, V. ; Babb, Jeffry ; Swanson, S. ; Taylor, M.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of California, San Diego, CA, USA
Volume
31
Issue
2
fYear
2011
Firstpage
86
Lastpage
95
Abstract
This article discusses about Greendroid mobile Application Processor. Dark silicon has emerged as the fundamental limiter in modern processor design. The Greendroid mobile application processor demonstrates an approach that uses dark silicon to execute general-purpose smart phone applications with less energy than today´s most energy efficient designs.
Keywords
elemental semiconductors; mobile computing; mobile handsets; multiprocessing systems; silicon; GreenDroid mobile application processor; dark silicon; energy efficient design; modern processor design; silicon dark future; smart phone application; Central Processing Unit; Green products; Hardware; Mobile communication; Smart phones; Transistors; GreenDroid; c-core; conservation core; dark silicon; heterogeneous many-core systems; mobile application processor; utilization wall;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Micro, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0272-1732
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MM.2011.18
Filename
5719585
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