The greendroid mobile application processor: An architecture for silicon's dark future

Nathan Goulding-Hotta; Jack Sampson; Ganesh Venkatesh; Saturnino Garcia; Joe Auricchio; Po Chao Huang; Manish Arora; Siddhartha Nath; Vikram Bhatt; Jonathan Babb; Steven Swanson; Michael Bedford Taylor

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The greendroid mobile application processor: An architecture for silicon's dark future

Nathan Goulding-Hotta, Jack Sampson, Ganesh Venkatesh, Saturnino Garcia, Joe Auricchio, Po Chao Huang, Manish Arora, Siddhartha Nath, Vikram Bhatt, Jonathan Babb, Steven Swanson, Michael Bedford Taylor

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Dark silicon has emerged as the fundamental limiter in modern processor design. The GreenDroid mobile application processor demonstrates an approach that uses dark silicon to execute general-purpose smartphone applications with 11 times less energy than today's most energy-efficient designs.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	5719585
Pages (from-to)	86-95
Number of pages	10
Journal	IEEE Micro
Volume	31
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MM.2011.18
State	Published - Mar 2011

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In: IEEE Micro, Vol. 31, No. 2, 5719585, 03.2011, p. 86-95.

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