Title :
Servers, workstations, personal computers: the looming power bottleneck
Author :
Christiansen, Bob
Author_Institution :
Samsung Semicond., San Jose, CA, USA
Abstract :
With microprocessor performance advancing at breakneck speed, DC/DC converter designers have been hard pressed to keep up. In this paper on-chip power issues are described and their implications for the motherboards and DC/DC power modules discussed
Keywords :
DC-DC power convertors; computer power supplies; microcomputers; network servers; workstations; DC/DC converter; DC/DC power modules; SOI; capacitors; copper interconnects; microprocessor performance; motherboards; on-chip power issues; personal computers; power dissipation; programmable output; servers; voltage scaling; workstations; Circuits; Clocks; Cogeneration; Dynamic voltage scaling; Energy management; Frequency; Microcomputers; Power dissipation; Transistors; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, 1999. APEC '99. Fourteenth Annual
Conference_Location :
Dallas, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5160-6
DOI :
10.1109/APEC.1999.749488
