Course Outline:
Course Introduction
Basics of Power Consumption
Dynamic power vs. Leakage power
Architectural-level power modeling
Wattch Tool Set
Low-power processor design
Power gating, clock gating, DVS techniques
Lower-power cache architecture
Case Study – Andes processor
Low-power interconnection design
Bus encoding schemes
Energy-aware NOC (network-on-chip) design
System-wide power management
Dynamic power management (DPM) for peripherals
Low-power flash storage system
Thermal-aware architecture design
Thermal-aware architectural-level floorplanning
DTM (Dynamic Thermal Management)
Power/Thermal Issues in CMP