Title
Error control combining Hamming and product codes for energy efficient nanoscale on-chip interconnects
Abstract
The authors propose an energy efficient error control scheme that combines simple Hamming codes with powerful product codes for deeply scaled on-chip interconnects. By using Hamming codes in low-noise environments and product codes in high-noise environments, the proposed method achieves high reliability while maintaining energy efficiency; further, hardware sharing is introduced to reduce system overhead. To achieve the same reliability in noisy environments, the proposed method uses a lower swing voltage than a conventional Hamming implementation, resulting in a 30% energy reduction; an energy reduction of up to 40% is achieved compared to a multi-error correcting BCH code.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1049/iet-cdt.2008.0130
Computers & Digital Techniques, IET
Keywords
DocType
Volume
BCH codes,Hamming codes,energy conservation,error correction codes,integrated circuit interconnections,integrated circuit reliability,microprocessor chips,nanoelectronics,power aware computing,Hamming codes,efficient error control scheme,energy efficient nanoscale on-chip interconnects,energy reduction,multierror correcting BCH code,product codes
Journal
4
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
1751-8601
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
19
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fu, B.120.40
Paul Ampadu228528.55