Among the components on a many-core chip, network-on-chip (NoC) has already contributed a large portion to overall power consumption. Optimizing NoC performance under a given power budget is further complicated to k...Among the components on a many-core chip, network-on-chip (NoC) has already contributed a large portion to overall power consumption. Optimizing NoC performance under a given power budget is further complicated to keep the network connectivity and minimize the detour distances. In this paper, a NoC power budgeting method from the communication perspective is proposed, which intelligently powers off routers/iinks and sets up alternative paths to restrict the power and thermal envelop. The effect of performance optimizaion of the proposed power budgeting mothod is measured based on latency and in the given power budget, 22% latency can be reduced averagely compared with some competing methods when running real benchmarks.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.61376024 and No.61306024Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province under Grant No.S2013040014366Basic Research Programme of Shenzhen No.JCYJ20140417113430642 and No.JCYJ20140901003939020
文摘Among the components on a many-core chip, network-on-chip (NoC) has already contributed a large portion to overall power consumption. Optimizing NoC performance under a given power budget is further complicated to keep the network connectivity and minimize the detour distances. In this paper, a NoC power budgeting method from the communication perspective is proposed, which intelligently powers off routers/iinks and sets up alternative paths to restrict the power and thermal envelop. The effect of performance optimizaion of the proposed power budgeting mothod is measured based on latency and in the given power budget, 22% latency can be reduced averagely compared with some competing methods when running real benchmarks.