Fault Mitigation in Reconfigurable NoC Routers with Thin Design Rules

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Suvorova ◽  
Yuriy Sheynin ◽  
Nadezhda Matveeva
Keyword(s):  
Embedded Systems ◽  
Dynamic Failure ◽  
Design Rules ◽  
Networks On Chip ◽  
Failure Mitigation ◽  
On Chip ◽  
Main Components

Modern networks-on-chip (NoC) for embedded systems are manufactured by thin design rules; they should be resistant to failures due to the specific aspects of the technology. In the paper we consider failure mitigation approaches, evaluate them for thin design rules. Most fault mitigation approaches are based on reconfiguration of NoC and its main components – routers. We suggest the methodology for development of reconfigurable routers with fault mitigation, estimate them using simulation that enables dynamic failure injection. The proposed method can be used for routers with different structures in NoC with various interconnection graphs.

scholarly journals The approach to design of dynamically reconfigurable arbitration units in embedded systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 55-67
Author(s):  
E. A. Suvorova
Keyword(s):  
Embedded Systems ◽  
Complex Function ◽  
Reconfigurable Systems ◽  
Design Rules ◽  
Networks On Chip ◽  
Dynamically Reconfigurable ◽  
Systems On Chip ◽  
Function Modules ◽  
On Chip ◽  
Intensive Development

Today we are seeing an intensive development of dynamically reconfigurable components in the FPGA-based embedded systems. Nevertheless, by their parameters, FPGA-based projects are essentially inferior to those that are on ASIC and the same design rules. This significantly limits applications of the FPGA-based reconfigurable systems. The paper presents relevance of dynamic reconfiguration for arbitration units in embedded systems. There is a review of existing design techniques for ASIC-based dynamically reconfigurable components. They have been also evaluated by applicability for the arbitration unit development (complex function modules for systems-on-chip and networks-on-chip). The authors have proposed the approach to the development of dynamically reconfigurable arbitration units in embedded systems. The approach makes it possible to consider specific requirements to these units.

Efficient Instruction and Data Caching for High Performance Embedded Processors

1970 ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
A. Ferrerón Labari ◽  
D. Suárez Gracia ◽  
V. Viñals Yúfera
Keyword(s):  
Embedded Systems ◽  
Power Consumption ◽  
Low Power ◽  
Interconnection Networks ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Content Management ◽  
Structure Design ◽  
Portable Devices ◽  
On Chip

In the last years, embedded systems have evolved so that they offer capabilities we could only find before in high performance systems. Portable devices already have multiprocessors on-chip (such as PowerPC 476FP or ARM Cortex A9 MP), usually multi-threaded, and a powerful multi-level cache memory hierarchy on-chip. As most of these systems are battery-powered, the power consumption becomes a critical issue. Achieving high performance and low power consumption is a high complexity challenge where some proposals have been already made. Suarez et al. proposed a new cache hierarchy on-chip, the LP-NUCA (Low Power NUCA), which is able to reduce the access latency taking advantage of NUCA (Non-Uniform Cache Architectures) properties. The key points are decoupling the functionality, and utilizing three specialized networks on-chip. This structure has been proved to be efficient for data hierarchies, achieving a good performance and reducing the energy consumption. On the other hand, instruction caches have different requirements and characteristics than data caches, contradicting the low-power embedded systems requirements, especially in SMT (simultaneous multi-threading) environments. We want to study the benefits of utilizing small tiled caches for the instruction hierarchy, so we propose a new design, ID-LP-NUCAs. Thus, we need to re-evaluate completely our previous design in terms of structure design, interconnection networks (including topologies, flow control and routing), content management (with special interest in hardware/software content allocation policies), and structure sharing. In CMP environments (chip multiprocessors) with parallel workloads, coherence plays an important role, and must be taken into consideration.

Energy-Performance Analysis and Optimization for Networks-on-Chip

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 988-1003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuai ZHANG ◽  
Feng-Long SONG ◽  
Dong WANG ◽  
Zhi-Yong LIU ◽  
Dong-Rui FAN
Keyword(s):  
Performance Analysis ◽  
Energy Performance ◽  
Networks On Chip ◽  
On Chip

scholarly journals Ray Tracing Modeling of Electromagnetic Propagation for On-Chip Wireless Optical Communications

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franco Fuschini ◽  
Marina Barbiroli ◽  
Marco Zoli ◽  
Gaetano Bellanca ◽  
Giovanna Calò ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ray Tracing ◽  
Path Loss ◽  
Wireless Channel ◽  
Electromagnetic Propagation ◽  
Networks On Chip ◽  
Spatial Properties ◽  
Radiation Properties ◽  
Wireless Optical Communications ◽  
On Chip ◽  
The Relationship

Multi-core processors are likely to be a point of no return to meet the unending demand for increasing computational power. Nevertheless, the physical interconnection of many cores might currently represent the bottleneck toward kilo-core architectures. Optical wireless networks on-chip are therefore being considered as promising solutions to overcome the technological limits of wired interconnects. In this work, the spatial properties of the on-chip wireless channel are investigated through a ray tracing approach applied to a layered representation of the chip structure, highlighting the relationship between path loss, antenna positions and radiation properties.

scholarly journals Exploring a New Adaptive Routing Based on the Dijkstra Algorithm in Optical Networks-on-Chip

Micromachines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Yan-Li Zheng ◽  
Ting-Ting Song ◽  
Jun-Xiong Chai ◽  
Xiao-Ping Yang ◽  
Meng-Meng Yu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Consumption ◽  
Power Control ◽  
Optical Networks ◽  
Output Power ◽  
Network Performance ◽  
Transmission Loss ◽  
Adaptive Routing ◽  
Dijkstra Algorithm ◽  
Networks On Chip ◽  
On Chip

The photoelectric hybrid network has been proposed to achieve the ultrahigh bandwidth, lower delay, and less power consumption for chip multiprocessor (CMP) systems. However, a large number of optical elements used in optical networks-on-chip (ONoCs) generate high transmission loss which will influence network performance severely and increase power consumption. In this paper, the Dijkstra algorithm is adopted to realize adaptive routing with minimum transmission loss of link and reduce the output power of the link transmitter in mesh-based ONoCs. The numerical simulation results demonstrate that the transmission loss of a link in optimized power control based on the Dijkstra algorithm could be maximally reduced compared with traditional power control based on the dimensional routing algorithm. Additionally, it has a greater advantage in saving the average output power of optical transmitter compared to the adaptive power control in previous studies, while the network size expands. With the aid of simulation software OPNET, the network performance simulations in an optimized network revealed that the end-to-end (ETE) latency and throughput are not vastly reduced in regard to a traditional network. Hence, the optimized power control proposed in this paper can greatly reduce the power consumption of s network without having a big impact on network performance.

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