Title
Flexible Virtual Channel Power-Gating for High-Throughput and Low-Power Network-on-Chip
Abstract
Power-gating is a representative circuit level technique to mitigate leakage power. While in low-power Network-on-Chip (NoC) design, the former fine-grained power-gating methods will decrease network performance due to serial wake-up latency and head-of-line blocking. Therefore, we propose a flexible Virtual Channel (VC) management scheme for fine-grained power-gating to achieve high throughput and low-power. The proposed power-gating method with the early wake-up is evaluated by using some synthetic workloads. When compared with an optimized early wake-up power-gating technique, it can improve performance effectively in medium and high network loads, and increases the network throughput by 15.7%~44.1% for different synthetic loads, while keeps network power consumption as low as the optimized method. For the PARSEC application traces of token based protocol, it can significantly decrease packet latency by 20.3% on average, however only increases less than 3.6% peak power when compared with the optimized method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/DSD.2014.28
DSD
Keywords
Field
DocType
flexible virtual channel management scheme,token based protocol,parsec application,power aware computing,power consumption,power-gating,fine-grained power-gating methods,low-power,serial wake-up latency,flexible virtual channel power-gating,leakage power mitigation,low-power electronics,logic design,low-power noc design,low-power network-on-chip,representative circuit level technique,early wake-up power-gating technique,high-throughput,network power consumption,network-on-chip,network-on-chip, power-gating, high-throughput, low-power,head-of-line blocking,throughput,process control,radiation detectors,pipelines,routing
Power network design,Computer science,Network packet,Network on a chip,Real-time computing,Power gating,Throughput,Embedded system,Virtual channel,Low-power electronics,Network performance
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
18
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Feng Wang110.36
Xiantuo Tang222.07
Wang, Qinglin331.10
Zuocheng Xing410.36
Hengzhu Liu58623.28