Temperature-aware processor frequency assignment for MPSoCs using convex optimization

  • Authors:
  • Srinivasan Murali;Almir Mutapcic;David Atienza;Rajesh Gupta;Stephen Boyd;Giovanni De Micheli

  • Affiliations:
  • EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland;Stanford University, Stanford, CA;EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland;UC San Diego, San Diego, CA;Stanford University, Stanford, CA;EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • CODES+ISSS '07 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE/ACM international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The increasing processing capability of Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chips (MPSoCs) is leading to an increase in chip power dissipation, which in turn leads to significant increase in chip temperature. An important challenge facing the MPSoC designers is to achieve the highest performance system operation that satisfies the temperature and power consumption constraints. The frequency of operation of the different processors and the application workload assignment play a critical role in determining the performance, power consumption and temperature profile of the MPSoC. In this paper, we propose novel convex optimization based methods that solve this important problem of temperature-aware processor frequency assignment, such that the total system performance is maximized and the temperature and power constraints are met. We perform experiments on several realistic SoC benchmarks using a cycle-accurate FPGA-based thermal emulation platform, which show that the systems designed using our methods meet the temperature and power consumption requirements at all time instances, while achieving maximum performance.