Analysis and Design of Networks-on-Chip Under High Process Variation

Download or read book Analysis and Design of Networks-on-Chip Under High Process Variation written by Rabab Ezz-Eldin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes in detail the impact of process variations on Network-on-Chip (NoC) performance. The authors evaluate various NoC topologies under high process variation and explain the design of efficient NoCs, with advanced technologies. The discussion includes variation in logic and interconnect, in order to evaluate the delay and throughput variation with different NoC topologies. The authors describe an asynchronous router, as a robust design to mitigate the impact of process variation in NoCs and the performance of different routing algorithms is determined with/without process variation for various traffic patterns. Additionally, a novel Process variation Delay and Congestion aware Routing algorithm (PDCR) is described for asynchronous NoC design, which outperforms different adaptive routing algorithms in the average delay and saturation throughput for various traffic patterns.