Title :
A low power detection routing method for bufferless NoC
Author :
Chung-Kai Hsu ; Kun-Lin Tsai ; Jing-Fu Jheng ; Shanq-Jang Ruan ; Chung-An Shen
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Taipei, Taiwan
Abstract :
Network-on-Chip has been proposed for high performance on-chip communication. The major component of a Network-on-Chip architecture is the router, which affects the data transmission latency, chip area and power consumption. Inside the router, buffers occupy a significant a mount of power and a large partition of chip area. Therefore bufferless NoC, which discards the buffers in the routers, has been proposed for solving the power and area problem. In this paper, a low power deflection routing method is proposed for the bufferless on-chip network dealing with the routing problem and achieving the low power goal. The proposed method uses routing matrix for constructing the possible routing path, and then selects the best route for each data packet. Only few calculations are used in this method therefore lowering power consumption the low power goal. The experimental result shows that the proposed approach can greatly reduce power consumption and chip are compared with previous work.
Keywords :
low-power electronics; network routing; network-on-chip; bufferless NoC architecture; bufferless on-chip network; chip area; data packet; data transmission latency; high performance on-chip communication; low power deflection routing method; low power detection routing method; network-on-chip architecture; power consumption; routing matrix; routing path; Computer architecture; Network-on-chip; Ports (Computers); Power demand; Routing; Topology; Deflection routing; NoC; bufferless router; low power;
Conference_Titel :
Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), 2013 14th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Santa Clara, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4951-2
DOI :
10.1109/ISQED.2013.6523636