TY - GEN
T1 - An energy-efficient heterogeneous CMP based on hybrid TFET-CMOS cores
AU - Saripalli, Vinay
AU - Mishra, Asit
AU - Datta, Suman
AU - Narayanan, Vijaykrishnan
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The steep sub-threshold characteristics of inter-band tunneling FETs (TFETs) make an attractive choice for low voltage operations. In this work, we propose a hybrid TFET-CMOS chip multiprocessor (CMP) that uses CMOS cores for higher voltages and TFETs for lower voltages by exploiting differences in application characteristics. Building from the device characterization to design and simulation of TFET based circuits, our work culminates with a workload evaluation of various single/multi-threaded applications. Our evaluation shows the promise of a new dimension to heterogeneous CMPs to achieve significant energy efficiencies (upto 50% energy benefit and 25% ED benefit with single-threaded applications, and 55% ED benefit with multi-threaded applications).
AB - The steep sub-threshold characteristics of inter-band tunneling FETs (TFETs) make an attractive choice for low voltage operations. In this work, we propose a hybrid TFET-CMOS chip multiprocessor (CMP) that uses CMOS cores for higher voltages and TFETs for lower voltages by exploiting differences in application characteristics. Building from the device characterization to design and simulation of TFET based circuits, our work culminates with a workload evaluation of various single/multi-threaded applications. Our evaluation shows the promise of a new dimension to heterogeneous CMPs to achieve significant energy efficiencies (upto 50% energy benefit and 25% ED benefit with single-threaded applications, and 55% ED benefit with multi-threaded applications).
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U2 - 10.1145/2024724.2024889
DO - 10.1145/2024724.2024889
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80052671830
SN - 9781450306362
T3 - Proceedings - Design Automation Conference
SP - 729
EP - 734
BT - 2011 48th ACM/EDAC/IEEE Design Automation Conference, DAC 2011
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ER -