Talwar, Basavaraj and Amrutur, Bharadwaj (2008) A System-C based Micro architectural Exploration Framework for Latency, Power and Performance Trade-offs of On-Chip Interconnection. In: Workshop on NOC Architectures, Lake Como, Italy, Lake Como, Italy.
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We describe a System-C based framework we are developing, to explore the impact of various architectural and microarchitectural level parameters of the on-chip interconnection network elements on its power and performance. The framework enables one to choose from a variety of architectural options like topology, routing policy, etc., as well as allows experimentation with various microarchitectural options for the individual links like length, wire width, pitch, pipelining, supply voltage and frequency. The framework also supports a flexible traffic generation and communication model. We provide preliminary results of using this framework to study the power, latency and throughput of a 4x4 multi-core processing array using mesh, torus and folded torus, for two different communication patterns of dense and sparse linear algebra. The traffic consists of both Request-Response messages (mimicing cache accesses)and One-Way messages. We find that the average latency can be reduced by increasing the pipeline depth, as it enables higher link frequencies. We also find that there exists an optimum degree of pipelining which minimizes energy-delay product.
| Item Type: | Conference Paper |
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| Department/Centre: | Division of Electrical Sciences > Electrical Communication Engineering |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Sep 2011 05:50 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Sep 2011 05:50 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/40575 |
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