Thermal Issues Associated with Modern SoCs - How Hot is Hot?

In this, the third instalment of the "Let's Talk PVT Monitoring" series Moortec CTO, Oliver King talks about the thermal issues associated with modern SoCs and ponders the question How Hot is…

Another important milestone was reached recently for TSMC  and ARM when the teams taped out at the end of December 2013 (see block diagram) the first 64 bit ARMv8 processors in a big.LITTLE configuration on TSMC’s leading edge manufacturing process…