Analysis of power consumption on switch fabrics in network routers

  • Authors:
  • Terry Tao Ye;Giovanni De Micheli;Luca Benini

  • Affiliations:
  • Stanford University;Stanford University;University of Bologna

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 39th annual Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a framework to estimate the power consumption on switch fabrics in network routers. We propose different modeling methodologies for node switches, internal buffers and interconnect wires inside switch fabric architectures. A simulation platform is also implemented to trace the dynamic power consumption with bit-level accuracy. Using this framework, four switch fabric architectures are analyzed under different traffic throughput and different numbers of ingress/egress ports. This framework and analysis can be applied to the architectural exploration for low power high performance network router designs.