With the development of wireless technology, various emerging mobile applications are
attracting significant attention and drastically changing our daily lives. Applications such as …

To improve mobile experience of users, recent mobile devices have adopted powerful
processing units (CPUs and GPUs). Unfortunately, the processing units often consume a …

Modern mobile and embedded devices are required to be increasingly energy-efficient
while running more sophisticated tasks, causing the CPU design to become more complex …

State-of-the-art mobile platforms are powered by heterogeneous system-on-chips that
integrate multiple CPU cores, a GPU, and many specialized processors. Competitive …

State-of-the-art thermal management techniques independently throttle the frequencies of
high-performance multi-core CPU and powerful graphics processing units (GPU) on …

Modern multiprocessor systems-on-chip (MpSoCs) offer tremendous power and
performance optimization opportunities by tuning thousands of potential voltage, frequency …

Editor's notes: Multicore mobile processors have proliferated due to their efficiency in
meeting the stringent performance requirement within a limited power budget. However …

DVFS (dynamic voltage and frequency scaling) is a system-level technique that adjusts
voltage and frequency levels of CPU/GPU at runtime to balance energy efficiency and high …

Increasing power densities have led to the dark silicon era, for which heterogeneous
multicores with different power and performance characteristics are promising architectures …

Overheating smartphones could hamper user experiences. While there have been
numerous reports on smartphone overheating, a systematic measurement and user …