Intelligent On/Off Dynamic Link Management for On-Chip Networks

Table 1

Power savings/hardware overhead comparisons.

Related work	Characteristics	Power savings comparing to no algorithm	Hardware overhead
[1]	8×8 2D mesh topology, Uniform traffic	~37,5%—turning on/off 2 links per router	N/A
[11]	8×8 2D mesh topology, Pareto distribution—0.5 packet injection rate	~30%	500 equivalent logic gates per router port Delay ignored
Proposed ANN-based technique	8×8 2D mesh topology and 8×8 torus topology,uniform traffic	Up to ~40%—turning on/off links based on ANN prediction	4% of the NoC hardware for a complete 4×4 Mesh NoC