ArSMART: An Improved SMART NoC Design Supporting Arbitrary-Turn Transmission

SMART NoC, which transmits unconflicted flits to distant processing elements (PEs) in one cycle through the express bypass, is a high-performance NoC design proposed recently. However, if contention occurs, flits with low priority would not only be buffered but also could not fully utilize bypass. A...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on computer-aided design of integrated circuits and systems 2022-05, Vol.41 (5), p.1316-1329
Main Authors: Chen, Hui, Chen, Peng, Zhou, Jun, Duong, Luan H. K., Liu, Weichen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptive algorithms
Adaptive control
Algorithms
Arbitrary-turn transmission
Arbitration
Buffers
bypassing
Clustering algorithms
Computation
contention-minimized routing
end-to-end latency
Energy consumption
Resource management
Rounding
Routers
Routing
Schedules
SMART network-on-chip (NoC)
Switches
Task analysis
Wires
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Summary:SMART NoC, which transmits unconflicted flits to distant processing elements (PEs) in one cycle through the express bypass, is a high-performance NoC design proposed recently. However, if contention occurs, flits with low priority would not only be buffered but also could not fully utilize bypass. Although there exist several routing algorithms that decrease contentions by rounding busy routers and links, they cannot be directly applicable to SMART since it lacks the support for arbitrary-turn (i.e., the number and direction of turns are free of constraints) routing. Thus, in this article, to minimize contentions and further utilize bypass, we propose an improved SMART NoC, called ArSMART, in which the arbitrary-turn transmission is enabled. Specifically, ArSMART divides the whole NoC into multiple clusters where the route computation is conducted by the cluster controller and the data forwarding is performed by the bufferless reconfigurable router. Since the long-range transmission in SMART NoC needs to bypass the intermediate arbitration, to enable this feature, we directly configure the input and output ports connection rather than applying hop-by-hop table-based arbitration. To further explore the higher communication capabilities, effective adaptive routing algorithms that are compatible with ArSMART are proposed. The route computation overhead, one of the main concerns for adaptive routing algorithms, is hidden by our carefully designed control mechanism. Compared with the state-of-the-art SMART NoC, the experimental results demonstrate an average reduction of 40.7% in application schedule length and 29.7% in energy consumption.
ISSN:0278-0070
1937-4151
DOI:10.1109/TCAD.2021.3091961