Network on chips (NoC) have emerged as a feasible solution to handle growing number of communicating components on a single chip. The scalability of chips however increases the probability of errors, hence making reliability a major issue in scaling chips. We hereby propose a comprehensive fault tolerant mechanism for packet based NoCs to deal with packet losses or corruption due to transient faults as well as a dynamic routing mechanism to deal with permanent link and/or router failure on-chip.
Citation:
Muhammad Ali, Michael Welzl, Sven Hessler, "A Fault tolerant mechanism for handling Permanent and Transient Failures in a Network on Chip," itng, pp.1027-1032, International Conference on Information Technology (ITNG'07), 2007