Adaptive and Passage-Based Fault-Tolerant Routing Methods for Three-Dimensional Mesh NoCs

This paper proposes novel two fault-tolerant routing methods for a 3D mesh network-on-chip (NoC). The existing method proposed by Boppana et al. combines two routing methods, minimal fully adaptive routing and fault-tolerant routing, for faulty region detouring. However, in the latter fault-tolerant...

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Main Authors: Yota Kurokawa, Masaru Fukushi
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Published: MDPI AG 2025-04-01
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description This paper proposes novel two fault-tolerant routing methods for a 3D mesh network-on-chip (NoC). The existing method proposed by Boppana et al. combines two routing methods, minimal fully adaptive routing and fault-tolerant routing, for faulty region detouring. However, in the latter fault-tolerant routing, a detour direction is statically defined for each faulty region. Due to the long detour path and the use of eight virtual channels, this method has the problems of high communication latency and a large hardware overhead. To solve these problems, the first proposed method allows adaptive detours for faulty regions, and the second proposed method allows the passage of them. The simulation results show that, compared with the existing method, the second proposed method enables us to reduce the latency by about 30% and improve the throughput by about 3.1% with half of the virtual channels.
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spelling doaj-art-acea83522d784cf5956a5bd2e52e00d12025-08-20T02:24:25ZengMDPI AGChips2674-07292025-04-01421410.3390/chips4020014Adaptive and Passage-Based Fault-Tolerant Routing Methods for Three-Dimensional Mesh NoCsYota Kurokawa0Masaru Fukushi1Graduate School of Sciences and Technology for Innovation, Yamaguchi University, Ube-shi 755-8611, JapanGraduate School of Sciences and Technology for Innovation, Yamaguchi University, Ube-shi 755-8611, JapanThis paper proposes novel two fault-tolerant routing methods for a 3D mesh network-on-chip (NoC). The existing method proposed by Boppana et al. combines two routing methods, minimal fully adaptive routing and fault-tolerant routing, for faulty region detouring. However, in the latter fault-tolerant routing, a detour direction is statically defined for each faulty region. Due to the long detour path and the use of eight virtual channels, this method has the problems of high communication latency and a large hardware overhead. To solve these problems, the first proposed method allows adaptive detours for faulty regions, and the second proposed method allows the passage of them. The simulation results show that, compared with the existing method, the second proposed method enables us to reduce the latency by about 30% and improve the throughput by about 3.1% with half of the virtual channels.https://www.mdpi.com/2674-0729/4/2/14network-on-chipfault-tolerant routing3D mesh NoC
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Adaptive and Passage-Based Fault-Tolerant Routing Methods for Three-Dimensional Mesh NoCs
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network-on-chip
fault-tolerant routing
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title Adaptive and Passage-Based Fault-Tolerant Routing Methods for Three-Dimensional Mesh NoCs
title_full Adaptive and Passage-Based Fault-Tolerant Routing Methods for Three-Dimensional Mesh NoCs
title_fullStr Adaptive and Passage-Based Fault-Tolerant Routing Methods for Three-Dimensional Mesh NoCs
title_full_unstemmed Adaptive and Passage-Based Fault-Tolerant Routing Methods for Three-Dimensional Mesh NoCs
title_short Adaptive and Passage-Based Fault-Tolerant Routing Methods for Three-Dimensional Mesh NoCs
title_sort adaptive and passage based fault tolerant routing methods for three dimensional mesh nocs
topic network-on-chip
fault-tolerant routing
3D mesh NoC
url https://www.mdpi.com/2674-0729/4/2/14
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