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Thermal-Aware Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Routing for Hybrid Photonic-Electronic NoC

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Microring resonators, key components in on-chip photonic networks, are extremely sensitive to thermal variations, resulting in high failure rate optical transmission. Recently, hybrid photonic-electronic networks-on-chip (HPENoCs) have become popular because they exploit both electrical and photonic interconnects to satisfy stringent bandwidth, latency and energy demands of future chip multiprocessors (CMPs). Traditionally, power-hungry trimming methods using metal heaters are applied to stabilize microring resonant wavelengths. In this work, we propose a thermal-aware fault-tolerant routing technique (TAFT) that exploits the dual path diversity of HPENoCs to perform adaptive routing, given on-chip thermal conditions. TAFT achieves bit error rate (BER) of 10-11, exceeding required for reliable optical transmission (10-9); TAFT further guarantees connectivity of 99.98%. Compared to conventional power trimming, TAFT achieves 30% power efficiency, while it incurs 17% throughput overhead and only 2% latency overhead in real system benchmarks.

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NoCArc '16: Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Network on Chip Architectures
October 2016
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DOI:10.1145/2994133
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  1. fault-tolerant routing
  2. network-on-chip
  3. photonic interconnect
  4. thermal variation

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  • (2021) A Table-Free Approximate Q -Learning-Based Thermal-Aware Adaptive Routing for Optical NoCs IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems10.1109/TCAD.2020.298777540:1(199-203)Online publication date: Jan-2021
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