low-power design

Limits of Parallelism and Boosting in Dim Silicon

Supply-voltage scaling has stagnated in recent technology nodes, leading to so-called dark silicon. To increase overall chip multiprocessor (CMP) performance, it is necessary to improve the energy efficiency of individual tasks so that more tasks can …

Assessing the Performance Limits of Parallelized Near-threshold Computing

Supply voltage scaling has stagnated in recent technology nodes, leading to so-called "dark silicon." In this paper, we investigate the limit of voltage scaling together with task parallelization to maintain task completion latency. When accounting …