OctaLynx D: RISC microprocessor dedicated for dynamic thermal management

Author

Frankiewicz, Maciej ; Gal, Ran ; Golda, Adam ; Kos, Andrzej

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., AGH Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kraków, Poland

fYear

2013

fDate

20-22 June 2013

Firstpage

259

Lastpage

262

Abstract

The paper describes features of the OctaLynx RISC microprocessor version dedicated to cooperation with the Dynamic Power Management system with awareness of present circuit temperature. The processor can use two independent interrupts triggered by thermal events. Additional function registers contain information about maximum temperature found in the circuit by the hardware part of the power management system and information to control frequency generated by built-in oscillator. The processor was designed with Verilog hardware description language.

Keywords

hardware description languages; microcontrollers; reduced instruction set computing; thermal management (packaging); OctaLynx; RISC microprocessor; Verilog hardware description language; built in oscillator; dynamic power management system; dynamic thermal management; function registers; thermal events; Clocks; Frequency control; Microcontrollers; Oscillators; Registers; Temperature control; Thermal management; DPM; RISC; Verilog; thermal management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (MIXDES), 2013 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference

Conference_Location

Gdynia

Print_ISBN

978-83-63578-00-8

Type

conf

Filename

6613353