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| Title: | Stochastic Communication: A New Paradigm for Fault-Tolerant Networks-on-Chip |
| Author: | Paul Bogdan ; Tudor Dumitraş ; Radu Marculescu |
| 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. |
| Journal: | VLSI Design |
| Issn: | 1065514X |
| EIssn: | 15635171 |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Volume: | 2007 |
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