A lightweight fault-tolerant mechanism for network-on-chip

Michihiro Koibuchi, Hiroki Matsutani, Hideharu Amano, Timothy Mark Pinkston

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117 被引用数 (Scopus)

抄録

Survival capability is becoming a crucial factor in designing multicore processors built with on-chip packet networks, or networks on chip (NoCs). In this paper, we propose a lightweight fault-tolerant mechanism for NoCs based on default backup paths (DBPs) designed to maintain, in the presence of failures, network connectivity of both nonfaulty routers as well as healthy processor cores which may be connected to faulty routers. The mechanism provides default paths as backup between certain router ports which serve as alternative datapaths to circumvent failed components within a faulty router. Along with a minimal subset of normal network channels, the set of default backup paths internal to faulty routers form - in the worst case - a unidirectional ring topology that provides network-wide connectivity to all processor cores. Routing using the DBP mechanism is proved to be deadlock-free with only two virtual channels even for fault scenarios in which regular networks degrade to irregular (arbitrary) topologies. Evaluation results show that, for a 2-D mesh wormhole NoC, only 12.6% additional hardware resources are needed to implement the proposed DBP mechanism in order to provide graceful performance degradation without chip-wide failure as the number of faults increases to the maximum needed to form ring.

本文言語English
ホスト出版物のタイトルProceedings - Second IEEE International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip, NOCS 2008
ページ13-22
ページ数10
DOI
出版ステータスPublished - 2008 5月 28
イベント2nd IEEE International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip, NOCS 2008 - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
継続期間: 2008 4月 72008 4月 11

出版物シリーズ

名前Proceedings - Second IEEE International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip, NOCS 2008

Other

Other2nd IEEE International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip, NOCS 2008
国/地域United Kingdom
CityNewcastle upon Tyne
Period08/4/708/4/11

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • コンピュータ サイエンス(全般)

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