National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.61106018, No.61376025);Aeronautical Science Foundation of China, ASFC (No.20115552031);China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No.20100481134);Industry-University-Research Integration Innovation Fund of Jiangsu Province (No.BY2013003-11);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No.NS2012095)
GE Fen, WU Ning, QIN Xiao-lin, et al. Network Monitor Based Dynamic Fault-Tolerant Routing for Application-Specific Network on Chip[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2013, 41(11): 2135-2143.
DOI:
GE Fen, WU Ning, QIN Xiao-lin, et al. Network Monitor Based Dynamic Fault-Tolerant Routing for Application-Specific Network on Chip[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2013, 41(11): 2135-2143. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0372-2112.2013.11.004.
Network Monitor Based Dynamic Fault-Tolerant Routing for Application-Specific Network on Chip
针对专用片上网络(Network on Chip,NoC)全局通信事务管理和可靠性设计问题,提出片上网络监控器的概念,用于获取全局网络实时状态信息及执行路径分配算法,基于此提出一种动态路由机制DyRS-NM.该机制能检测和定位NoC中的拥塞和故障链路,并能区分瞬时和永久性链路故障,采用重传方式避免瞬时故障,通过重新路由计算绕开拥塞和永久性故障.设计实现了RTL级网络监控器和与之通信的容错路由器模块,并将MPEG4解码器应用映射至基于网络监控器的44Mesh结构NoC体系结构中,验证了系统性能以及面积功耗开销.相比静态XY路由和容错动态路由FADR,DyRS-NM机制在可接受的开销代价下获得了更优的性能.
Abstract
Aiming at the problem of global communication management and reliability design in application-specific Network on Chip (NoC)
the concept of network monitor is introduced
which monitors overall network real-time conditions and implements path allocation algorithm.Then a novel dynamic routing scheme based on Network Monitor called DyRS-NM is presented.The proposed scheme has the ability to discover and deal with both congestion and permanent faults and distinguish them from transient faults.DyRS-NM can avoid transient faults by using retransmission scheme
and also can detour congested and permanently faulted links by recalculating routing paths.The RTL-level circuits design of the network monitor and fault-tolerant router are realized
and experimental results with a MPEG4 decoder application mapped onto network monitor based 44 mesh NoC architecture verify the system performance and cost of area and power consumption.Compared to both static XY routing and fault-aware dynamic routing FADR
significant performance improvements can be achieved by using the DyRS-NM scheme with acceptable additional cost.