Physical-Aware Link Allocation and Route Assignment for Chip Multiprocessing
NOCS '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Fourth ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip
NCXplore: a design space exploration framework of temporal encoding for on-chip serial interconnects
International Journal of High Performance Systems Architecture
On the design and analysis of fault tolerant NoC architecture using spare routers
Proceedings of the 16th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
3D network-on-chip architectures using homogeneous meshes and heterogeneous floorplans
International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing - Special issue on selected papers from ReconFig 2009 International conference on reconfigurable computing and FPGAs (ReconFig 2009)
Fault tolerance analysis of mesh networks with uniform versus nonuniform node failure probability
Information Processing Letters
Transport-layer-assisted routing for runtime thermal management of 3D NoC systems
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)
Journal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal
Non-minimal, turn-model based NoC routing
Microprocessors & Microsystems
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On-chip networks (OCNs) have been proposed to solve increasing scale and complexity of the designs in nano-scale multi-core VLSI designs. The concept of irregular meshes is an important issue because IPs of different sizes may be supported by various vendors. In order to solve routing problems in irregular meshes, modified routing algorithms to detour oversized IPs (OIPs) are needed. However, directly applying fault-tolerant routing algorithms may cause two serious problems: 1) heavy traffic loads around OIPs and 2) unbalanced traffic loads in irregular meshes. In this paper, we propose an OIP Avoidance Pre-Routing (OAPR) algorithm to solve the aforementioned problems. The proposed OAPR can make traffic loads evenly spread on the networks and shorten average paths of packets. Therefore, the networks using the OAPR have lower latency and higher throughput than those using fault-tolerant routing algorithms. In our experiments, four different cases are simulated to demonstrate that the proposed OAPR improves 13.3%~100% sustainable throughputs than two previous fault-tolerant routing algorithms. Moreover, the hardware overhead of the OAPR is less than 1% compared to the cost of a whole router. Hence, the proposed OAPR algorithm has good performance and is practical for irregular mesh-based OCNs.