ATMI

Temperature has become a strong constraint when designing high-performance processors. This comes both from miniaturization and from the difficulty to continue decreasing supply voltage without severely impairing performance. Recent processors feature on-chip thermal sensors that trigger power throttling when the processor becomes too hot. It is important for researchers to take into account this constraint. ATMI is an analytical model of temperature that, when combined with a model of power consumption, allows to simulate the temperature inside a processor chip.