基于网络监控器的专用片上网络动态容错路由

针对专用片上网络（Network on Chip，NoC）全局通信事务管理和可靠性设计问题，提出片上网络监控器的概念，用于获取全局网络实时状态信息及执行路径分配算法，基于此提出一种动态路由机制DyRS-NM.该机制能检测和定位NoC中的拥塞和故障链路，并能区分瞬时和永久性链路故障，采用重传方式避免瞬时故障，通过重新路由计算绕开拥塞和永久性故障.设计实现了RTL级网络监控器和与之通信的容错路由器模块，并将MPEG4解码器应用映射至基于网络监控器的4×4Mesh结构NoC体系结构中，验证了系统性能以及面积功耗开销.相比静态XY路由和容错动态路由FADR，DyRS-NM机制在可接受的开销代价下获得了更优的性能.

Network Monitor Based Dynamic Fault-Tolerant Routing for Application-Specific Network on Chip

Aiming at the problem of global communication management and reliability design in application-specific Network on Chip (NoC),the concept of network monitor is introduced,which monitors overall network real-time conditions and implements path allocation algorithm.Then a novel dynamic routing scheme based on Network Monitor called DyRS-NM is presented.The proposed scheme has the ability to discover and deal with both congestion and permanent faults and distinguish them from transient faults.DyRS-NM can avoid transient faults by using retransmission scheme,and also can detour congested and permanently faulted links by recalculating routing paths.The RTL-level circuits design of the network monitor and fault-tolerant router are realized,and experimental results with a MPEG4 decoder application mapped onto network monitor based 4×4 mesh NoC architecture verify the system performance and cost of area and power consumption.Compared to both static XY routing and fault-aware dynamic routing FADR,significant performance improvements can be achieved by using the DyRS-NM scheme with acceptable additional cost.