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With technological advances, the number of cores integrated on a chip is increasing. This, in turn is leading to thermal
constraints and thermal design challenges. Temperature gradients and hot-spots not only affect the performance of the system,
but also lead to unreliable circuit operation and affect the life-time of the chip. Meeting temperature constraints and reducing
hot-spots are critical for achieving reliable and efficient operation of complex multi-core systems.
In this article we analyze the use of four of the most promising families of online control techniques for thermal manage-
ment of multi-processors system-on-chip (MPSoC). In particular, in our exploration we aim at achieving an online smooth
thermal control action that minimizes the performance loss as well as the computational and hardware overhead of embed-
ding a thermal management system inside the MPSoC. The definition of the optimization problem to tackle in this work
considers the thermal profile of the system, its evolution over time and current time-varying workload requirements. Thus,
this problem is formulated as a finite-horizon optimal control problem and we analyze the control features of different on-
line thermal control approaches. In addition, we implemented the policies on an MPSoC hardware simulation platform and
performed experiments on a cycle-accurate model of the 8-core Niagara multi-core architecture using benchmarks ranging
from web-accessing to playing multimedia. Results show different trade-offs among the analyzed techniques regarding the
thermal profile, the frequency setting, the power consumption and the implementation complexity
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