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
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;
Journal_Title :
Micro, IEEE
