Speaker:

Ghislain Kaiser, Docea Power, France

Title:

Coupled power/thermal simulation to optimize the operating point of complex multi-core SoCs

Abstract:

For many MPSoC devices, power consumption and its corollary thermal dissipation can limit the delivery of highest performance. This is new in an industry where performance and higher frequencies have been both synonymous with competitiveness and a strong driver for innovation. New MPSoC designers must make sure power consumption and thermal dissipation will not block access to performance. It is common sense to say that power is best optimized at the architectural level, hence it has been the responsibility of system architects to put in place a methodology for modeling, estimating and optimizing power consumption at the system level. In many companies these system architects have become truely power architects who must interface with IP owners, packaging design teams, software engineers and thermal experts. In this presentation we will show a methodology that power architects can use to model, simulate and optimize power consumption and thermal dissipation but also to achieve faster validation of power and thermal management software for a shorter time-to-market. In this methodology, special emphasis is put on how power architects exchange and track data with the different teams that must contribute to their work.

Bio:

Ghislain Kaiser is the CEO and co-founder of DOCEA Power. He has more than 12 years of experience in the micro-electronics industry, where he specialized in power management. Prior to founding DOCEA Power, Ghislain worked for STMicroelectronics as senior system architect on wireless applications and before that as project leader for the set-top box division. Ghislain has an engineering diploma from Supelec (Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité, France), completed with the 1-year program in innovative business management from HEC (Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Paris, France). He is also an alumni of the business management department of CNAM (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers).