Title
Yield-oriented evaluation methodology of network-on-chip routing implementations
Abstract
Network-on-Chip technology is gaining wide popularity for the interconnection of an increasing number of processor cores on the same silicon die. However, growing process variations cause interconnect malfunction or prevent the network from working at the intended frequency, directly impacting yield and manufacturing cost. Topology agnostic routing algorithms have the potential to tolerate process variations without degrading performance. We propose a three step methodology for evaluating routing algorithms in their ability to deal with variability. Using yield enhancement and operation speed preservation as the criteria, we demonstrate how this methodology can be used to select the best design choice among several plausible combinations of routing algorithms and implementations. Also, we show how an efficient table-less routing implementation can be used to minimise the impact of variability on manufacturing and operating frequency.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/SOCC.2009.5335667
SOC'09 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on System-on-chip
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
integrated circuit interconnections,integrated circuit yield,microprocessor chips,network-on-chip,silicon,Si,interconnect malfunction,network-on-chip routing,processor core interconnection,silicon die,yield enhancement,yield operation,yield oriented evaluation
Conference
978-1-4244-4467-0
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.58
11
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rodrigo, S.170.58
Hernandez, C.291.63
Flich, J.3673.17
Silla, F.4111.37