A Cluster-Based Core Protection Technique for Networks-on-Chip

Partial Virtual channel Sharing (PVS) architecture has been proposed to enhance the performance of Networks-on-Chip (NoC) based systems. In this paper, a cluster based processing core protection technique for NoC systems using PVS approach is presented. In case of network level faults, the processing core of faulty node can use any other router in the cluster for transmission or reception of data packets with proposed architecture. Simulation results show significant reduction in average packet latency at the expense of negligible area overhead.