Research on novel power consumption mitigation techniques to Dark Silicon problem for future MPSoCs.

“暗硅”指的是VLSI芯片中由于功率和带宽预算限制而无法通电(即以额定电压/频率工作)的电路数量。这是基于片上网络的大型MPSoC未来实现的最大障碍之一。本研究试图催生一类新的智能网络管理技术(分组控制)，以减少由于通信而导致的功耗，并允许新的性能和/或功率效率水平。PI参加高质量的国际会议，能够评估该方法的原创性和对未来系统的适用性，无论是嵌入式系统还是高性能系统。正在构建NoC模拟器，以详细分析我们新提出的路由器和控制机制。

"Dark Silicon" relates to the amount of circuitry in a VLSI chip which cannot be powered-on, i.e., work at nominal voltage/frequency, due to power and bandwidth budget constraints. This is one the greatest obstacles for future implementations of large NoC-based MPSoCs.This research tries to sprout a new class of intelligent network management techniques (packet control) to mitigate power consumption due to communication and allow new levels of performance and/or power efficiency.The PI attended high quality international conferences being able to assess the originality and suitability of the methodology for future systems, both embedded and high performance ones. A NoC simulator is being constructed for detailed analysis of our newly proposed routers and control mechanisms.