Thermal-aware management techniques for cyber-physical systems

The power density of processors has increased greatly over time. Since elevated temperatures greatly shorten the lifetime of semiconductor devices, thermal management has emerged as a key topic in the design and control of computational platforms. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive yet compact survey of thermal management in cyber-physical systems. Such systems are constrained by the need to meet hard deadlines; this distinguishes them from general-purpose systems and motivates distinctive resource-management approaches.