Miraculous chip

2000/11/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Hardwarea

A team of researchers from Rochester University has created a chip that adapts to the needs of the system. To do this, they have built the Complexity-Adaptive Processing (CAP) tool: The tool is used to control the use of the chip by a piece of support, while adapting the chip to what is requested by the piece, that is, what needs the system takes one configuration or another. After the first tests, researchers have found that the performance of the processor increases and that the energy consumption is reduced by 50%. The chip stores information widely used in units called cach and controls the use of them by the CAP tool in a specific program. This allows you to adjust the size and speed of cachŽs, saving energy and time in searching for stored information.