HACS: A novel cost aware paradigm promising fault tolerance on mesh-based network on chip architecture

  • Authors:
  • Melika Tinati;Ahmad Khademzadeh;Ali Afzali-Kusha;Majid Janidarmian

  • Affiliations:
  • CE Deptartment, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, P.O. Box 14515-775, Tehran, Iran;Iran Telecommunication Research Center, P.O. Box 14155-3961, Tehran, Iran;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran, P.O. Box 14395/515, Tehran, Iran;CE Deptartment, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, P.O. Box 14515-775, Tehran, Iran

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Electrical Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

As the integration of transistors on today's embedded systems scales, so does the shrinking size of chips, thus making the on-chip communication a challenging issue on the VLSI designs. However, network on chips have emerged as a promising technology to tackle the on-chip communication constraints. Likewise, the reliability issues have become the salient problem, since regarding to the inaccessible failures of on-chip elements, there must be some levels of embedded fault tolerance techniques. In this paper, an innovated technique is revealed providing fault tolerance in the on-chip networks over single and multiple permanent switch failures. The experimental results achieved by the system simulation in SystemC TLM environment are validated with the mathematical analysis modeled for system reliability that we extend in this paper, which demonstrate the extensive reliability enhancement of this paradigm. Along with the system improvement, silicon area overhead is calculated utilizing VHDL low level simulation and Orion synthesis.