Stochastic Communication: A New Paradigm for Fault-Tolerant Networks-on-Chip

Bogdan, Paul; Dumitraş, Tudor; Marculescu, Radu

doi:https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/95348

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Volume 2007 | Article ID 095348 | https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/95348

Stochastic Communication: A New Paradigm for Fault-Tolerant Networks-on-Chip

Paul Bogdan,¹Tudor Dumitraş,¹and Radu Marculescu¹

Academic Editor: Maurizio Palesi

Received12 Dec 2006

Accepted06 Feb 2007

Published22 Apr 2007

Abstract

As CMOS technology scales down into the deep-submicron (DSM) domain, the costs of design and verification for Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) are rapidly increasing. Relaxing the requirement of 100% correctness for devices and interconnects drastically reduces the costs of design but, at the same time, requires SoCs to be designed with some degree of system-level fault-tolerance. Towards this end, this paper introduces a novel communication paradigm for SoCs, called stochastic communication. This scheme separates communication from computation by allowing the on-chip interconnect to be designed as a reusable IP and also provides a built-in tolerance to DSM failures, without a significant performance penalty. By using this communication scheme, a large percentage of data upsets, packet losses due to buffers overflow, and severe levels of synchronization failures can be tolerated, while providing high levels of performance.

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