Re: Advantages of Parallel Hz

The little lost angel wrote:

It doesn't. As I understand it, heat is generated by transistors
mainly during switching, i.e. when it's doing something.

Your understanding is close, but not exactly correct.
Look at Figure 2 in this Chip Design Magazine article:
http://www.chipdesignmag.com/print.p...d=76?issueId=6

Also see:
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/504/frank.html
http://www.gabeoneda.com/node/79
http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.j...cleID=54202129
http://www.dspdesignline.com/showArt...eId= 21400746
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_optimization_(EDA)


Guy Macon
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