GREENDROID

ABSTRACT:
The GreenDroid mobile application processor is a 45-nm multicore research prototype that targets the Android mobile-phone software stack and can execute general-purpose mobile programs with 11 times less energy than todays most energy-efficient designs, at similar or better performance levels. It does this through the use of a hundred or so automatically generated, highly specialized, energy-reducing cores, called conservation cores. This research attacks a key technological problem for microprocessor architects, which is called the utilization wall. The utilization wall says that, with each process generation, the percentage of transistors that a chip design can switch at full frequency drops exponentially because of power constraints.

REFERENCES:
[1] GreenDroid: An Architecture for the Dark Silicon Age-- Nathan Goulding-Hotta, Jack Sampson, Qiaoshi Zheng, Vikram Bhatt, Joe Auricchio, Steven Swanson and Michael Bedford Taylor-2012 IEEE [2] A Landscape of the New Dark Silicon Design Regime-- Michael B. Taylor- 2013 IEEE [3] GreenDroid: Exploring the Next Evolution in Smartphone Application Processors-- Steven Swanson and Michael Bedford Taylor- IEEE Communications Magazine April 2011