scholarly journals Low-Process–Voltage–Temperature-Sensitivity Multi-Stage Timing Monitor for System-on-Chip Applications

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (13) ◽  
pp. 1587
Author(s):  
Duo Sheng ◽  
Hsueh-Ru Lin ◽  
Li Tai

High performance and complex system-on-chip (SoC) design require a throughput and stable timing monitor to reduce the impacts of uncertain timing and implement the dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) scheme for overall power reduction. This paper presents a multi-stage timing monitor, combining three timing-monitoring stages to achieve a high timing-monitoring resolution and a wide timing-monitoring range simultaneously. Additionally, because the proposed timing monitor has high immunity to the process–voltage–temperature (PVT) variation, it provides a more stable time-monitoring results. The time-monitoring resolution and range of the proposed timing monitor are 47 ps and 2.2 µs, respectively, and the maximum measurement error is 0.06%. Therefore, the proposed multi-stage timing monitor provides not only the timing information of the specified signals to maintain the functionality and performance of the SoC, but also makes the operation of the DVFS scheme more efficient and accurate in SoC design.

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 1852-1856
Author(s):  
P. Bhuvaneshwari ◽  
T. R. Jaya Chandra Lekha

This project proposes multilayer advanced high-performance bus architecture for low power applications. The proposed AHB architecture consists of the bus arbiter and the bus tracer (A.R.M.A., 1999. Specification (Rev 2.0) ARM IHI0011A). The bus arbiter, which is self motivated selects the input packet based on the control signals of the incoming packet. So that arbitration leads to a maximum performance. The On-Chip bus is an important system-on-chip infrastructure that connects major hardware components. Monitoring the on-chip bus signals is crucial to the SoC debugging and performance analysis/optimization (Gu, R.T., et al., 2007. A Low Cost Tile-Based 3D Graphics Full Pipeline with Real-Time Performance Monitoring Support for OpenGL ES in Consumer Electronics. 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics, June; IEEE. pp.1–6). But, such signals are difficult to observe since they are deeply embedded in a SoC and there are often no sufficient I/O pins to access these signals. Therefore, a straightforward approach is to embed a bus tracer in SoC to capture the bus signal trace and store the trace in on-chip storage such as the trace memory which could then be off loaded to outside world for analysis. The bus tracer is capable of capturing the bus trace with different resolutions, all with efficient built in compression mechanisms such as dictionary based compression scheme for address and control signals and differential compression scheme for data. To improve the compression ratio matrix based compression which is lossless compression is used instead of differential compression. This system is designed using Verilog HDL, simulated using Modelsim and synthesized using Xilinx software.


Electronics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Viejo ◽  
Jorge Juan-Chico ◽  
Manuel J. Bellido ◽  
Paulino Ruiz-de-Clavijo ◽  
David Guerrero ◽  
...  

This paper presents the complete design and implementation of a low-cost, low-footprint, network time protocol server core for field programmable gate arrays. The core uses a carefully designed modular architecture, which is fully implemented in hardware using digital circuits and systems. Most remarkable novelties introduced are a hardware-optimized timekeeping algorithm implementation, and a full-hardware protocol stack and automatic network configuration. As a result, the core is able to achieve similar accuracy and performance to typical high-performance network time protocol server equipment. The core uses a standard global positioning system receiver as time reference, has a small footprint and can easily fit in a low-range field-programmable chip, greatly scaling down from previous system-on-chip time synchronization systems. Accuracy and performance results show that the core can serve hundreds of thousands of network time clients with negligible accuracy degradation, in contrast to state-of-the-art high-performance time server equipment. Therefore, this core provides a valuable time server solution for a wide range of emerging embedded and distributed network applications such as the Internet of Things and the smart grid, at a fraction of the cost and footprint of current discrete and embedded solutions.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Arun Prasath Raveendran ◽  
Jafar A. Alzubi ◽  
Ramesh Sekaran ◽  
Manikandan Ramachandran

This Ensuing generation of FPGA circuit tolerates the combination of lot of hard and soft cores as well as devoted accelerators on a chip. The Heterogene Multi-Processor System-on-Chip (Ht-MPSoC) architecture accomplishes the requirement of modern applications. A compound System on Chip (SoC) system designed for single FPGA chip, and that considered for the performance/power consumption ratio. In the existing method, a FPGA based Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) model used to define the Ht-MPSoC configuration by taking into consideration the sharing hardware accelerator between the cores. However, here, the sharing method differs from one processor to another based on FPGA architecture. Hence, high number of hardware resources on a single FPGA chip with low latency and power targeted. For this reason, a fuzzy based MIP and Graph theory based Traffic Estimator (GTE) are proposed system used to define New asymmetric multiprocessor heterogene framework on microprocessor (AHt-MPSoC) architecture. The bandwidths, energy consumption, wait and transmission range are better accomplished in this suggested technique than the standard technique and it is also implemented with a multi-task framework. The new Fuzzy control-based AHt-MPSoC analysis proves significant improvement of 14.7 percent in available bandwidth and 89.8 percent of energy minimized to various traffic scenarios as compared to conventional method.


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.


Author(s):  
Yuichiro Ajima ◽  
Tomohiro Inoue ◽  
Shinya Hiramoto ◽  
Shunji Uno ◽  
Shinji Sumimoto ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Habiba Lahdhiri ◽  
Jordane Lorandel ◽  
Salvatore Monteleone ◽  
Emmanuelle Bourdel ◽  
Maurizio Palesi

The Network-on-chip (NoC) paradigm has been proposed as a promising solution to enable the handling of a high degree of integration in multi-/many-core architectures. Despite their advantages, wired NoC infrastructures are facing several performance issues regarding multi-hop long-distance communications. RF-NoC is an attractive solution offering high performance and multicast/broadcast capabilities. However, managing RF links is a critical aspect that relies on both application-dependent and architectural parameters. This paper proposes a design space exploration framework for OFDMA-based RF-NoC architecture, which takes advantage of both real application benchmarks simulated using Sniper and RF-NoC architecture modeled using Noxim. We adopted the proposed framework to finely configure a routing algorithm, working with real traffic, achieving up to 45% of delay reduction, compared to a wired NoC setup in similar conditions.


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