Thermal optimization in multi-granularity multi-core floorplanning
Michael B. Healy, Hsien-Hsin S. Lee, Gabriel H. Loh, Sung Kyu Lim · 2009
Abstract—Multi-core microarchitectures require a careful balance between many competing objectives to achieve the highest possible perfor-mance. Integrated Early Analysis is the consideration of all of these factors at an early stage. Toward this goal, this work presents the first adaptive multi-granularity multi-core microarchitecture-level floorplanner that simultaneously optimizes temperature and performance, and considers memory bus length. We include simultaneous optimization at both the module-level and the core/cache-bank level. Related experiments show that our methodology is effective for optimizing multi-core architectures.1 I.