Cognitive I/O for 3D-Integrated Many-core System

Increasing demands to process large amounts of data in real time leads to an increase in the many-core microprocessors, which is posing a grand challenge for an effective and management of available resources. As communication power occupies a significant portion of power consumption when processing such big data, there is an emerging need to devise a methodology to reduce the communication power without sacrificing the performance. To address this issue, we introduce a cognitive I/O designed toward 3D-integrated many-core microprocessors that performs adaptive tuning of the voltage-swing levels depending on the achieved performance and power consumption. We embed this cognitive I/O in a many-core microprocessor with DRAM memory partitioning to perform energy saving for application such as fingerprint matching and face recognition.