Extending GigaNoC towards a Dependable Network-on-Chip
Christoph Puttmann, Mario Porrmann, Ulrich Rückert · PUB – Publications at Bielefeld University (Bielefeld University) · 2010
With the continuing shrinking of CMOS technologies the susceptibility to operational faults increases and the design of reliable on-chip communication becomes crucially important. This paper focuses on the design of a faulttolerant and dependable Network-on-Chip (NoC) communication infrastructure. By adding error detecting codes to the communication channels, transient as well as permanent faults can be detected. All transmission faults are recognized by an integrated error counter and upon reaching a certain threshold, the on-chip communication infrastructure is reconfigured by an adaptive routing scheme.