Abstract:The continued growth of power consumption has presented numerous packaging challenges for high performance processors. Even though voltage is a strong knob to reduce power, reducing voltage also reduces the maximum operating frequency [1]. Integrating more cores into the processor would result in better performance and power efficiency but this requires more memory accesses, driving a need for larger cache and high speed signaling, increasing package size and layer count. This paper discusses the design strate… Show more
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