Title :
Guest Editors´ Introduction: Cool Chips
Author :
Ikeda, Makoto ; Arakawa, Fumio
Author_Institution :
University of Tokyo
Abstract :
Low-power and high-speed chips (Cool Chips) aim to reduce power consumption and enhance performance for applications ranging from multimedia to robotics. Industry is working to develop optimal solutions—both hardware and software—for power optimization according to the processor´s required performance. The Cool Chips conference series focuses on all aspects of cool technologies. This special issue of IEEE Micro captures five contributions from among 12 submissions—not only from Cool Chips 2009 presentations but also from ordinal submissions. Multicore, video codec, and recognition processors were major topics at Cool Chips XII, and the articles selected for this issue reflect this trend.
Keywords :
CMOS technology; Energy consumption; High definition video; Isolation technology; Multicore processing; Object recognition; Size control; Streaming media; VLIW; Video codecs; embedded multicore processor; high-speed chips; low-power; microarchitectures; mobile application processor; object recognition; video codec; vision processor;
Journal_Title :
Micro, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MM.2009.100
