A Perspective on Dark Silicon
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The possibilities to increase single core performance has ended due to limited instruction level parallelism and a high penalty when increasing frequency. This prompted designers to move towards multi-core paradigms [1], largely supported by transistor scaling [2]. Scaling down transistor gate length makes it possible to switch them faster at a lower power, as they have a low capacitance. In this context, an important consideration is power density the power dissipated per unit area. Dennard’s scaling establishes that reducing physical parameters of transistors allows operating them at lower voltage and thus at lower power, because power consumption is proportional to the square of the applied voltage, keeping power density constant [3]. Dennard’s estimation of scaling effects and constant power density is shown in Table 1.1. Theoretically, scaling down further should result in more computational capacity per unit area. However, scaling is reaching its physical limits to an extent that voltage cannot be scaled down as much as transistor gate length leading to failure of Dennardian trend. This along with a rise in leakage current results in increased power density, rather than a constant power density. Higher power density
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