Circuit challenges for future computing systems

Future computing systems from application processors in mobile devices to high-end supercomputers face fundamental challenges of power, bandwidth, and synchronization. The power dissipation of these systems will be dominated by communication and clocking. Bandwidth, both on-chip, and off-chip will be a major limit to system performance. Conventional synchronous systems will become increasingly costly in terms of both cycle-time overhead and energy. A combination of novel architecture and efficient circuits can help meet these challenges. This talk will discuss the challenges of power, bandwidth, and synchronization in more detail and present some potential solutions for each challenge.