The GreenDroid Mobile Application Processor: An Architecture for Silicon's Dark Future

Authors:
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 Taylor
Affiliations:
University of California, San Diego;University of California, San Diego;University of California, San Diego;University of California, San Diego;University of California, San Diego;-;University of California, San Diego;University of California, San Diego;University of California, San Diego;University of California, San Diego;University of California, San Diego;University of California, San Diego
Venue:
IEEE Micro
Year:
2011

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Abstract

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.