scholarly journals A New Efficient and Reliable Dynamically ReconfigurableNetwork-on-Chip

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cédric Killian ◽  
Camel Tanougast ◽  
Fabrice Monteiro ◽  
Abbas Dandache

We present a new reliableNetwork-on-Chip(NoC) suitable forDynamically Reconfigurable Multiprocessors on Chipsystems. The proposedNoCis based on routers performing online error detection of routing algorithm and data packet errors. Our work focuses on adaptive routing algorithms which allow to bypass faulty components or processor elements dynamically implemented inside the network. The proposed routing error detection mechanism allows to distinguish routing errors from bypasses of faulty components. The new router architecture is based on additional diagonal state indications and specific logic blocks allowing the reliable operation of theNoC. The main originality in the proposedNoCis that only the permanently faulty parts of the routers are disconnected. Therefore, our approach maintains a high run time throughput in theNoCwithout data packet loss thanks to a self-loopbackmechanism inside each router.

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Mohammed Shaba Saliu ◽  
Muyideen Omuya Momoh ◽  
Pascal Uchenna Chinedu ◽  
Wilson Nwankwo ◽  
Aliu Daniel

Network-on-Chip (NoC) has been proposed as a viable solution to the communication challenges on System-on-Chips (SoCs). As the communication paradigm of SoC, NoCs performance depends mainly on the type of routing algorithm chosen. In this paper different categories of routing algorithms were compared. These include XY routing, OE turn model adaptive routing, DyAD routing and Age-Aware adaptive routing.  By varying the load at different Packet Injection Rate (PIR) under random traffic pattern, comparison was conducted using a 4 × 4 mesh topology. The Noxim simulator, a cycle accurate systemC based simulator was employed. The packets were modeled as a Poisson distribution; first-in-first-out (FIFO) input buffer channel with a depth of five (5) flits and a flit size of 32 bits; and a packet size of 3 flits respectively. The simulation time was 10,000 cycles. The findings showed that the XY routing algorithm performed better when the PIR is low.  In a similar vein, the DyAD routing and Age-aware algorithms performed better when the load i.e. PIR is high.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Khurshid Ahmad ◽  
Muhammad Athar Javed Sethi ◽  
Rehmat Ullah ◽  
Imran Ahmed ◽  
Amjad Ullah ◽  
...  

Network on Chip (NoC) is a communication framework for the Multiprocessor System on Chip (MPSoC). It is a router-based communication system. In NoC architecture, nodes of MPSoC are communicating through the network. Different routing algorithms have been developed by researchers, e.g., XY, intermittent XY, DyAD, and DyXY. The main problems in these algorithms are congestion and faults. Congestion and faults cause delay, which degrades the performance of NoC. A congestion-aware algorithm is used for the distribution of traffic over NoC and for the avoidance of congestion. In this paper, a congestion-aware routing algorithm is proposed. The algorithm works by sending congestion information in the data packet. The algorithm is implemented on a 4 × 4 mesh NoC using FPGA. The proposed algorithm decreases latency, increases throughput, and uses less bandwidth in sharing congestion information between routers in comparison to the existing congestion-aware routing algorithms.


2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (12) ◽  
pp. 1950202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khyamling Parane ◽  
B. M. Prabhu Prasad ◽  
Basavaraj Talawar

Many-core systems employ the Network on Chip (NoC) as the underlying communication architecture. To achieve an optimized design for an application under consideration, there is a need for fast and flexible NoC simulator. This paper presents an FPGA-based NoC simulation acceleration framework supporting design space exploration of standard and custom NoC topologies considering a full set of microarchitectural parameters. The framework is capable of designing custom routing algorithms, various traffic patterns such as uniform random, transpose, bit complement and random permutation are supported. For conventional NoCs, the standard minimal routing algorithms are supported. For designing the custom topologies, the table-based routing has been implemented. A custom topology called diagonal mesh has been evaluated using table-based and novel shortest path routing algorithm. A congestion-aware adaptive routing has been proposed to route the packets along the minimally congested path. The congestion-aware adaptive routing algorithm has negligible FPGA area overhead compared to the conventional XY routing. Employing the congestion-aware adaptive routing, network latency is reduced by 55% compared to the XY routing algorithm. The microarchitectural parameters such as buffer depth, traffic pattern and flit width have been varied to observe the effect on NoC behavior. For the [Formula: see text] mesh topology, the LUT and FF usages will be increased from 32.23% to 34.45% and from 12.62% to 15% considering the buffer depth of 4 and flit widths of 16 bits, and 32 bits, respectively. Similar behavior has been observed for other configurations of buffer depth and flit width. The torus topology consumes 24% more resources than the mesh topology. The 56-node fat tree topology consumes 27% and 2.2% more FPGA resources than the [Formula: see text] mesh and torus topologies. The 56-node fat tree topology with buffer depth of 8 and 16 flits saturates at the injection rates of 40% and 45%, respectively.


Author(s):  
K. Somasundaram ◽  
Juha Plosila

Network on chip (NoC) has been proposed as a solution for addressing the design challenges of future high performance nanoscale architectures. In NoCs, the traditional routing schemes are routing packets through a single path or multiple paths from one source node to a destination node, minimizing the congestion in the routing architecture. Although these routing algorithms are moderately efficient, they are time dependent. To reduce overall data packet transmission time in the network, the authors consider a network with multiple sources and multiple destinations. Multi-dimensional routing problems appear naturally in several resource allocation problems, communication networks and wireless sensor networks. In this paper, the authors have constructed a deadlock-free multi-dimensional path routing algorithm for minimizing the congestion in NoC.


Author(s):  
Anala M. R ◽  
Amit N. Subrahmanya ◽  
Allbright D’Souza

The advent of System-on-Chip (SoCs), has brought about a need to increase the scale of multi-core chip networks. Bus Based communications have proved to be limited in terms of performance and ease of scalability, the solution to both bus – based and Point-to-Point (P2P) communication systems is to use a communication infrastructure called Network-on-Chip (NoC). Performance of NoC depends on various factors such as network topology, routing strategy and switching technique and traffic patterns. In this paper, we have taken the initiative to compile together a comparative analysis of different Network on Chip infrastructures based on the classification of routing algorithm, switching technique, and traffic patterns. The goal is to show how varied combinations of the three factors perform differently based on the size of the mesh network, using NOXIM, an open source SystemC Simulator of mesh-based NoC. The analysis has shown tenable evidence highlighting the novelty of XY routing algorithm.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1871 (1) ◽  
pp. 012117
Author(s):  
Lu Liu ◽  
Yanfei Yang ◽  
Qianqian Lei ◽  
Huhu Wang ◽  
Song Lixun

2011 ◽  
Vol 474-476 ◽  
pp. 413-416
Author(s):  
Jia Jia ◽  
Duan Zhou ◽  
Jian Xian Zhang

In this paper, we propose a novel adaptive routing algorithm to solve the communication congestion problem for Network-on-Chip (NoC). The strategy competing for output ports in both X and Y directions is employed to utilize the output ports of the router sufficiently, and to reduce the transmission latency and improve the throughput. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is very effective in relieving the communication congestion, and a reduction in average latency by 45.7% and an improvement in throughput by 44.4% are achieved compared with the deterministic XY routing algorithm and the simple XY adaptive routing algorithm.


2014 ◽  
Vol 981 ◽  
pp. 431-434
Author(s):  
Zhan Peng Jiang ◽  
Rui Xu ◽  
Chang Chun Dong ◽  
Lin Hai Cui

Network on Chip(NoC),a new proposed solution to solve global communication problem in complex System on Chip (SoC) design,has absorbed more and more researchers to do research in this area. Due to some distinct characteristics, NoC is different from both traditional off-chip network and traditional on-chip bus,and is facing with the huge design challenge. NoC router design is one of the most important issues in NoC system. The paper present a high-performance, low-latency two-stage pipelined router architecture suitable for NoC designs and providing a solution to irregular 2Dmesh topology for NoC. The key features of the proposed Mix Router are its suitability for 2Dmesh NoC topology and its capability of suorting both full-adaptive routing and deterministic routing algorithm.


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