Performance evaluation of a wormhole-routed algorithm for irregular mesh NoC interconnect

  • Authors:
  • Arshin Rezazadeh;Ladan Momeni;Mahmood Fathy

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran;Department of Computer Engineering, Azad University of Ahvaz;Department of Computer Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran

  • Venue:
  • ICDCN'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Distributed computing and networking
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Irregular routing algorithms are based on fault-tolerant algorithms. They are capable of use with some modifications for irregular networks, and conventionally use several virtual channels (VCs) to pass faults and irregular nodes. A well-known wormhole-switched routing algorithm named f-cube3 employs three virtual channels to overtake faulty blocks. We have estimated an irregular routing algorithm derived from f-cube3 as a solution to increase the utilization of links with a higher saturation point which uses fewer numbers of VCs in comparison to f-cube3 by reducing desired virtual channels to two supporting irregular network. Moreover, simulation of both algorithms, for the same setting has been presented. Over and above, as the simulation results show, our algorithm has a higher performance in comparison with f-cube3 even with one less VC. As well, the results show that our algorithm has less blocked messages in the network with higher switched and routed messages in Network-on-Chip (NoC).