Abstract
As Chip Multiprocessors (CMPs) scale to tens or hundreds of nodes, the interconnect becomes a significant factor in cost, energy consumption and performance. Energy efficiency of the underlying communication framework plays a major role in the performance of multi-core systems. Recent work proposes buffer-less deflection routing as a cost effective alternative. A modified version of CONfigurable NETwork Creation Tool(CONNECT) is proposed as a buffer-less router to be lightweight and efficient. Modified CONNECT is based on parallel port allocation mechanism within the routers, that allows maximum number of flits to be deflected in a productive direction. Modified CONNECT is evaluated using uniform, transpose and inverse traffic workloads against CONNECT, BLESS and Cheap- Interconnect Partially Permuting Router (CHIPPER) on a 4x4 mesh network. Modified CONNECT saves 30% area compared to CONNECT while employing lower performance. Modified CONNECT also saves 24% in area against BLESS keeping the same performance.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | 2018 IEEE 61st International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS) |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Pages | 424-427 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781538673928 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 24 2019 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2022-06-30Acknowledgements: This research was partially funded by ONE Lab at Cairo University, Zewail City of Science and Technology, and KAUST.
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.
