Joint DTM and DVFS Techniques

While there is a significant temperature reduction in the network due to the millimeter-wave SWNoC (mSWNoC) architecture, a load-imbalanced network is still susceptible to local temperature hotspots. This chapter focuses on addressing the problem of network-induced temperature hotspots in the mSWNoC by incorporating a temperature-aware rerouting-based Dynamic Thermal Management (DTM) strategy with network-level Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS). This joint DTM and DVFS can further reduce the power, and hence reduce temperature hotspots without compromising the achievable performance benefits.