2004 Activity Reports
December 1, 2004 Distinguished Lecturer Program
| Title: | Temperature-Aware Computing |
| Presenter: | Prof. Mircea Stan(Virgina University Mircea R. Stan received the Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1996 and 1994, respectively, and the Diploma in Electronics and Communications from "Politehnica" University in Bucharest, Romania, in 1984. Since 1996 he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Virginia, where he is now an associate professor. Prof. Stan is teaching and doing research in the areas of high-performance and low-power VLSI, mixed-mode analog and digital circuits, computer arithmetic, embedded systems, and nanoelectronics. He has more than eight years of industrial experience, and has been a visiting faculty at IBM in 2000, and at Intel in 2002 and 1999. He has received the NSF CAREER award in 1997 and was a co-author on best paper awards at ISCA 2003 and SHAMAN 2002. He was the general chair for GLSVLSI 2003, has been on technical committees for several conferences, and has been a Guest Editor for IEEE Computer in 2003 and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems in 2001-2002 and for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems since 2004. He is a senior member of the IEEE, a member of ACM, Usenix, and also of Eta Kappa Nu, Phi Kappa Phi and Sigma Xi.) |
| Location: | Fukuoka University | Date: | Dec. 1, 15:00-16:30 |
| Abstract: | Power-aware design techniques aim to maximize performance under
power dissipation and power consumption constraints; this scenario is common
for high-performance systems. At the other extreme, low-power design techniques
try to reduce power or energy consumption in portable equipment for some
desired performance or throughput target. All the power consumed by a system
gets eventually dissipated and transformed into heat: the power and related
thermal issues affect performance, packaging, reliability,power delivery,
environmental, and heat removal costs. Temperatureis proportional to power
density, not just power, so methods to reduce thermal effects can try either
to reduce power, or increase area, or both. A thermal model is needed to
accurately estimate the temperature landscape. This presentation will span
power-aware and temperature-aware design techniques at the circuit and microarchitecture level. First there will be some generic results related to figures of merit for power-aware and temperature-aware design and related optimal voltages, followed by issues related to electro-thermal simulation and necessary modeling aspects. This will be followed by the introduction of the concept of temperature-adaptive circuits with some results that show increased performance across a wide temperature-range. Some issues related to active cooling and electro-thermal simulation with active cooling will be followed by thermal modeling requirements at the circuit level and the inclusion of thermal aspects in a temperature-aware design flow. |
February 8,9, 2005
Technical Meeting on Energy Engineering in Electronics and Communications
| Staffs: | Chair: Toshiaki Yachi Secretary: Eiji Sagai, Hisahito Endo Assistant of Secretary: Tadatoshi Babasaki |
| Date: | Feb. 8, 13:00-17:20 Feb. 9, 09:00-16:20 |
| Location: | Kyushu University |