International Conference on Supercomputing
New York City, June 22-26, 2002

Minimally Clocked Microprocessor Design
June 23, 8:30-12:30
Diana Marculescu (CMU), Dave Albonesi (Rochester), and Pradip Bose (IBM)
Tutorial Schedule

 

o Trends and issues in clock distribution.
o How much asynchrony do we want? Asynchronous processor study.
o Motivation for GALS, synchronization issues, deadlock prevention, possible inter-clocking domain communication schemes .
o GALS processors: power/performance evaluation.

· 9:30-9:45 Break

· 9:45-10:45 Part II (Dave Albonesi)

o GALS processors: power/performance evaluation (cont’d).
o Workload characterization and impact on the use of fine grain speed/voltage scaling.

· 10:45-11:00 Break

· 11:00-12:00 Part III (Pradip Bose)

o Case study - LPX, an IPCMOS based processor

o Looking in the crystal ball: Where will GALS be used?
o Concluding remarks