NoC routing protocols–objective-based classification

AB Gabis, M Koudil - Journal of Systems Architecture, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract NoCs (Network on Chips) are the most popular interconnection mechanism used
for systems that require flexibility, extensibility and low power consumption. However …

EbDa: A new theory on design and verification of deadlock-free interconnection networks

M Ebrahimi, M Daneshtalab - Proceedings of the 44th Annual …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Freedom from deadlock is one of the most important issues when designing routing
algorithms in on-chip/off-chip networks. Many works have been developed upon Dally's …

Efficient design-for-test approach for networks-on-chip

J Wang, M Ebrahimi, L Huang, X Xie… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To achieve high reliability in on-chip networks, it is necessary to test the network
continuously with Built-in Self-Tests (BIST) so that the faults can be detected quickly and the …

TSV-OCT: A scalable online multiple-TSV defects localization for real-time 3-D-IC systems

KN Dang, AB Ahmed, AB Abdallah… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to detect and localize through-silicon-via (TSV) failures in both manufacturing and
operating phases, most of the existing methods use a dedicated testing mechanism with …

REE: Reconfigurable and energy-efficient router architecture in wireless network-on-chip

Y Ouyang, D Xu, Z Chen, R Chen, W Zhou… - Microelectronics …, 2022 - Elsevier
Currently, on-chip routers consume the majority of the power budget. Moreover, the static
power consumption has taken up a significant fraction of the total power consumption in the …

Performance-aware test scheduling for diagnosing coexistent channel faults in topology-agnostic networks-on-chip

B Bhowmik, JK Deka, S Biswas… - ACM Transactions on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
High--performance multiprocessor SoCs used in practice require a complex network-on-chip
(NoC) as communication architecture, and the channels therein often suffer from various …

Sixer: A low-overhead, fully-distributed test scheme with guaranteed delivery of packets in networks-on-chip

B Bhowmik - Microelectronics Reliability, 2023 - Elsevier
The guaranteed delivery of application packets from source to destination in a network-on-
chip (NoC) is increasingly becoming an essential design issue. Channel faults may cause a …

Compact piecewise linear model based temperature control of multicore systems considering leakage power

H Wang, L Hu, X Guo, Y Nie… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Temperature control of the new-generation integrated multicore system is challenging. This
is because the leakage power, which is significant in modern systems, is nonlinearly related …

Component Dependencies Based Network-on-Chip Test

L Huang, T Zhao, Z Wang, J Zhan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
On-line test of NoC is essential for its reliability. This paper proposed an integral test solution
for on-line test of NoC to reduce the test cost and improve the reliability of NOC. The test …

Visualnoc: A visualization and evaluation environment for simulation and mapping

J Wang, Y Huang, M Ebrahimi, L Huang, Q Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Simulation is the most common approach to evaluate Network on Chip (NoC) designs and
many simulators at different abstraction levels have been developed so far. However …