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Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition (DATE'03)
Munich, Germany
March 03-March 07
ISBN: 0-7695-1870-2
Erland Nilsson, Royal Institute of Technology
Mikael Millberg, Royal Institute of Technology
Johnny Öberg, Royal Institute of Technology
Axel Jantsch, Royal Institute of Technology
In Networks on Chip, NoC, very low cost and high performance switches will be of critical importance. For a regular two-dimensional NoC we propose a very simple, memoryless switch. In case of congestion, packets are emitted in a non-ideal direction, also called deflective routing. To increase the maximum tolerable load of the network, we propose a Proximity Congestion Awareness, PCA, technique, where switches use load information of neighbouring switches, called stress values, for their own switching decisions, thus avoiding congested areas. We present simulation results with random traffic which show that the PCA technique can increase the maximum traffic load by a factor of over 20.
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Erland Nilsson, Mikael Millberg, Johnny Öberg, Axel Jantsch, "Load Distribution with the Proximity Congestion Awareness in a Network on Chip," date, vol. 1, pp.11126, Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition (DATE'03), 2003
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