Adaptive coding in networks-on-chip: transition activity reduction versus power overhead of the codec circuitry

  • Authors:
  • José C. S. Palma;Leandro Soares Indrusiak;Fernando G. Moraes;Alberto Garcia Ortiz;Manfred Glesner;Ricardo A. L. Reis

  • Affiliations:
  • PPGC – II, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil;MES, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany;PPGCC – FACIN – PUCRS, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil;MES, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany;MES, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany;PPGC – II, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • PATMOS'06 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Integrated Circuit and System Design: power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This work investigates the reduction of power consumption in Networks-on-Chip (NoCs) through the reduction of transition activity using data coding schemes. The estimation of the NoC power consumption is performed with basis on macromodels which reproduce the power consumption on each internal NoC module according to the transition activity on its input ports. Such macromodels are embedded in a system model and a series of simulations are performed, aiming to analyze the trade-off between the power savings due to coding schemes versus the power consumption overhead due to the encoding and decoding modules.