Chip Generators Study

Abstract

This report explores a new way to think about designing digital systems, creating chip generators rather than chips, to resolve the crisis facing the chip industry: the need for high energy efficiency pushes us to create customized computing devices tailored to the user's application, while the high cost of design pushes us to using generic computing solutions. Our research indicates that customized solutions can be orders of magnitude better, and that creating a chip generator requires changing the way we think and code hardware, but should be feasible.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA505937

Entities

People

  • Don Stark
  • Mark Horowitz
  • Megan Wachs
  • Ofer Shacham
  • Omid Azizi
  • Rehan Hameed
  • Wajahat Qadeer
  • Zain Asgar

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Application-Specific Integrated Circuits
  • Commerce
  • Computers
  • Computing Devices
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Efficiency
  • Energy
  • Energy Consumption
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Generators
  • High Energy
  • Instruction Set Architecture
  • Microarchitecture
  • Semiconductors

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Software Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design