On-line Temperature-Aware Idle Time Distribution for Leakage Energy Optimization

With new technologies, temperature has become an important issue to be considered at system level design. In this paper, we address the issue of leakage energy optimization through temperature aware idle time distribution (ITD). We propose an on-line ITD technique for leakage energy consumption minimization, where both static and dynamic idle time are considered. Experimental results have demonstrated that an important amount of leakage energy reduction can be achieved by applying our ITD techniques.