By: David Kanter (dkanter.delete@this.realworldtech.com), September 18, 2012 4:05 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Doug S (foo.delete@this.bar.bar) on September 18, 2012 3:04 pm wrote:
> Is the NTV work purely circuit design based or does it require process changes
> as well? If it is only design, wouldn't this be ideal for a Big Little style
> CPU/SoC where you have big cores using traditional design techniques running at
> full power, and little cores designed for NTV to run near-idle loads?
NTV is unrelated to the architecture. As you pointed out, you could do a larger core in standard CMOS, paired with a smaller NTV core.
David
> Is the NTV work purely circuit design based or does it require process changes
> as well? If it is only design, wouldn't this be ideal for a Big Little style
> CPU/SoC where you have big cores using traditional design techniques running at
> full power, and little cores designed for NTV to run near-idle loads?
NTV is unrelated to the architecture. As you pointed out, you could do a larger core in standard CMOS, paired with a smaller NTV core.
David