2.4 A 7nm High-Performance and Energy-Efficient Mobile Application Processor with Tri-Cluster CPUs and a Sparsity-Aware NPU
Young Duk Kim, Wookyeong Jeong, Lakkyung Jung, Dongsuk Shin, Jae Geun Song, Jinook Song, Hyeokman Kwon, Jae‐Young Lee, Jaesu Jung, Myung-Jin Kang, Jaehun Jeong, Yoonjoo Kwon, Nak Hee Seong · 2020
Mobile application processors (APs) must be extremely power efficient, while providing high performance for improved user experiences, higher graphic-rendering performance, fancy camera operations, faster data communication, as well as longer battery life [1]-[3]. In this paper, we introduce a power-efficient high-performance 7nm Exynos™ AP processor with tri-cluster CPUs, a sparsity-aware NPU, and a HW auto-clock gating (HWACG) feature.