Name
Abstract | ||
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The advent of diminutive technology feature sizes has led to escalating transistor densities. Burgeoning transistor counts are casting a dark shadow on modern chip design: global interconnect delays are dominating gate delays and affecting overall system performance. Networks-on-Chip (NoC) are viewed as a viable solution to this problem because of their scalability and optimized electrical properties. However, on-chip routers are susceptible to another artifact of deep submicron technology, Process Variation (PV). PV is a consequence of manufacturing imperfections, which may lead to degraded performance and even erroneous behavior. In this work, we present the first comprehensive evaluation of NoC susceptibility to PV effects, and we propose an array of architectural improvements in the form of a new router design—called SturdiSwitch—to increase resiliency to these effects. Through extensive reengineering of critical components, SturdiSwitch provides increased immunity to PV while improving performance and increasing area and power efficiency. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2010 | 10.1109/TDSC.2008.59 | IEEE Trans. Dependable Sec. Comput. |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
escalating transistor density,deep submicron technology,diminutive technology feature size,noc susceptibility,modern chip design,degraded performance,new router design,process variation,network-on-chip architectures,transistor count,overall system performance,pv effect,switches,network on chip,fault tolerance,transistors,system performance,network routing,computer architecture,chromium,fault tolerant,chip,power efficiency,pipelines,resource management | Electrical efficiency,Computer science,Network on a chip,Real-time computing,Integrated circuit design,Process variation,Router,Transistor,Interconnection,Scalability,Embedded system | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
7 | 3 | 1545-5971 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
36 | 1.07 | 25 |
Authors | ||
7 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chrysostomos Nicopoulos | 1 | 835 | 50.37 |
| Suresh Srinivasan | 2 | 340 | 29.28 |
| Aditya Yanamandra | 3 | 100 | 6.17 |
| Dongkook Park | 4 | 806 | 31.84 |
| Narayanan Vijaykrishnan | 5 | 6955 | 524.60 |
| Chita R. Das | 6 | 1046 | 45.21 |
| Mary Jane Irwin | 7 | 5185 | 605.00 |