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ReNo: novel switch architecture for reliability improvement of NoCs

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Using of nano-scale Very Large-Scale Integration technologies in Network-on-Chips (NoCs), switches and communication wires of NoCs are sensitive to transient faults. In the architecture of NoCs, switches play an important role in the correct and reliable functions of NoCs against transient faults. The most important transient faults in NoCs  are crosstalk faults in wires and Single Event Upset (SEU) and Multipl Event Upset (MBU) faults in buffers. In order to provide reliable switch, we propose a new reconfigurable switch architecture named ReNo to make NoCs more resilience to transient faults. ReNo is able to work in four configurations with several levels of reliability. As a result, local configuration controller logic is used to preserve against transient faults. In ReNo architecture, when a controller finds a high error rate, it configures the switch to a high reliability mode. In this way, imposed performance and power overheads to the switch are minimized. Simulation results which are obtained by Orion patch for power estimation show a significant reliability improvement with a meager performance and power saving at least 20% is achieved in proposed switch architecture, with improvement to state-of-the-art mechanisms.

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  1. Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran

    Yassin Allivand, Fereshte Mozafari, Ahmad Patooghy & Sanaz Kazemi Abharian

  2. Department of Computer Engeenring, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Tehran, Iran

    Zahra Shirmohammadi

  3. Department of Computer Systems Technology, North Carolina A&T State University, NC, USA

    Ahmad Patooghy

  4. Department of Computer Science, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

    Mona Jalal

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Shirmohammadi, Z., Allivand, Y., Mozafari, F. et al. ReNo: novel switch architecture for reliability improvement of NoCs. J Supercomput 79, 2801–2818 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-022-04732-9

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