Hotspot Prevention Through Runtime Reconfiguration in Network-On-Chip

G. M. Link (1) , N. Vijaykrishnan (1)

1 CSE

Many existing thermal management techniques focus on reducing the overall power consumption of the chip, and do not address location-specific temperature problems referred to as hotspots. We propose the use of dynamic runtime reconfiguration to shift the hotspot-inducing computation periodically and make the thermal profile more uniform. Our analysis shows that dynamic reconfiguration is an effective technique in reducing hotspots for NoCs.

Domaines: Architectures Matérielles [cs.AR]; Electronique

G. M. Link, N. Vijaykrishnan. Hotspot Prevention Through Runtime Reconfiguration in Network-On-Chip. DATE'05, Mar 2005, Munich, Germany. pp.648-649. ⟨hal-00181583⟩