SAPP: scalable and adaptable peak power management in nocs
ISLPED '07 Proceedings of the 2007 international symposium on Low power electronics and design
PowerAntz: distributed power sharing strategy for network on chip
Proceedings of the 13th international symposium on Low power electronics and design
A distributed concurrent on-line test scheduling protocol for many-core NoC-based systems
ICCD'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Computer design
PowerAntz: Ant behavior inspired power budget distribution scheme for Network-on-Chip systems
Microelectronics Journal
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In recent years integrating multiprocessors in a single chip is emerging for supporting various scientific and commercial applications, with diverse demands to the underlying on-chip networks. Communication traffic of these applications makes routers greedy to acquire more power such that the total consumed power of the network may exceed the supplied power and cause reliability problems. To ensure high performance and power constraint satisfaction, the on-chip network must have a peak power control mechanism. In this paper, we propose a credit-based peak power control scheme to assure power consumption to be under the given peak power constraint, without performance degradation. The peak power control scheme efficiently regulates each flowýs injection rate at the sender to minimize performance penalty. We have two different throttling schemes for real-time traffic and best-effort traffic; a rate-based throttling and an energy-budget based throttling, respectively. The simulation results on mesh networks show that the credit-based peak power control effectively prevents performance degradation and meets the peak power constraint.