Power Consumption in Multi-core Processors

Abstract

Power consumption in processors has become a major concern and clearly that has been one key factor behind growth of multi-core processors to achieve performance rather than single core with increased clock frequency. In this talk we would start by describing the processor power consumption issues as well as motivation for low power multi-core processors. We would also briefly trace the impact on power consumption as the processor architecture evolution mainly focussed on increasing performance. We would finally describe our recent research efforts focussed on multi-core power estimation.