Transport-layer-assisted routing for runtime thermal management of 3D NoC systems

  • Authors:
  • Chih-Hao Chao;Kun-Chih Chen;Tsu-Chu Yin;Shu-Yen Lin;An-Yeu (Andy) Wu

  • Affiliations:
  • National Taiwan University, Taiwan, China;National Taiwan University, Taiwan, China;National Taiwan University, Taiwan, China;National Taiwan University, Taiwan, China;National Taiwan University, Taiwan, China

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

To ensure thermal safety and to avoid performance degradation from temperature regulation in 3D NoC, we propose a new temperature-traffic control framework. The framework contains the vertical throttling-based runtime thermal management (VT-RTM) scheme and the transport-layer assisted routing (TLAR) scheme. VT-RTM scheme increases the cooling speed and maintains high availability. TLAR scheme sustains the throughput of the nonstationary irregular mesh network. In our experiments, VT-RTM scheme reduces cooling time by 84% and achieves 98% network availability; the overall performance impact is around 8% of traditional schemes. TLAR scheme reduces average latency by 35∼% and improves sustainable throughput by 76%