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 today’s 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