TY - GEN
T1 - Analyzing throughput of power and thermal-constraint multicore processor under NBTI effect
AU - Zheng, Shi Qun
AU - Lin, Ing-Chao
AU - Lee, Yen Han
PY - 2011/6/3
Y1 - 2011/6/3
N2 - NBTI (Negative Bias Temperature Instability) which can degrade the switching speed of PMOS transistors has become a major reliability challenge. In this paper, we investigate the throughput impact of NBTI on power and thermal-constraint multicore processors and show up to 30% degradation when both process variation and NBIT are considered. Then we evaluate the effectiveness of core rotation, adaptive voltage scaling and adaptive body biasing to improve the throughput of power and thermal constrained multicore processors. Our experimental results demonstrate 11.1% improvement in VDD is sufficient to guarantee throughput after 10-yr NBTI influence when processor variation is not considered. In contract, ABB technique is not able to recover throughput loss caused by NBTI.
AB - NBTI (Negative Bias Temperature Instability) which can degrade the switching speed of PMOS transistors has become a major reliability challenge. In this paper, we investigate the throughput impact of NBTI on power and thermal-constraint multicore processors and show up to 30% degradation when both process variation and NBIT are considered. Then we evaluate the effectiveness of core rotation, adaptive voltage scaling and adaptive body biasing to improve the throughput of power and thermal constrained multicore processors. Our experimental results demonstrate 11.1% improvement in VDD is sufficient to guarantee throughput after 10-yr NBTI influence when processor variation is not considered. In contract, ABB technique is not able to recover throughput loss caused by NBTI.
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U2 - 10.1145/1973009.1973097
DO - 10.1145/1973009.1973097
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79957749647
SN - 9781450306676
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, GLSVLSI
SP - 415
EP - 418
BT - GLSVLSI'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI
T2 - 21st Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, GLSVLSI 2011
Y2 - 2 May 2011 through 4 May 2011
ER -