10.3 heterogeneous multi-processing quad-core CPU and dual-GPU design for optimal performance, power, and thermal tradeoffs in a 28nm mobile application processor

Author

Wang, Aiping ; Tsung-Yao Lin ; Shichin Ouyang ; Wei-Hung Huang ; Jidong Wang ; Shu-Hsin Chang ; Sheng-Ping Chen ; Chun-Hsiung Hu ; Tai, Jim C. ; Koan-Sin Tan ; Meng-Nan Tsou ; Ming-Hsien Lee ; Gammie, Gordon ; Chi-Wei Yang ; Chih-Chieh Yang ; Yeh-Chi Chou

Author_Institution

MediaTek, Austin, TX, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

9-13 Feb. 2014

Firstpage

180

Lastpage

181

Abstract

Driven by consumer demand, mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets are offering more desktop-like capabilities. High-performance CPUs and GPUs, which handle compute-intensive tasks, are key to enhancing the user experience in applications such as 3D gaming, high-definition video and internet browsing. A CPU and GPU on a tablet device, however, can together consume up to 90% of the total SoC power. As the number of CPU and GPU cores on mobile devices continues to grow, it will require innovation to keep within fixed power and thermal budgets, while providing high performance.

Keywords

graphics processing units; microprocessor chips; multiprocessing systems; smart phones; system-on-chip; 3D gaming; Internet browsing; SoC; dual-GPU design; heterogeneous multiprocessing quad-core CPU; high-definition video; mobile application processor; mobile devices; power budget; size 28 nm; smartphones; system-on-chip; tablet device; thermal budget; Clocks; Graphics processing units; Performance evaluation; System-on-chip; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Thermal management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers (ISSCC), 2014 IEEE International

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

0193-6530

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0918-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSCC.2014.6757390

Filename

6757390