Dark Silicon and Future On-chip Systems

Chapter Six

Topology Specialization for Networks-on-Chip in the Dark Silicon Era

Mehdi Modarressi*^,†,1; Hamid Sarbazi-Azad^{†,‡    *} College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran^† School of Computer Science, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran^‡ Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran¹ Corresponding author: email address: [e-mail]

Abstract

Following Moore's law, the number of transistors on chip has grown exponentially for decades. This growing transistor count, coupled with recent architecture and compiler advances, has resulted in an unprecedented exponential performance increase of computers. With the end of Dennard scaling, however, the power required to operate all transistors ...