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A Novel Dimensionally-Decomposed Router for On-Chip Communication in 3D Architectures. Author: J. Kim, C. Nicopoulos (Dept. of CSE, PSU) Speaker: Po-Shan Huang ISCA’07. Outline. Introduction Current 3D NoC Architecture Proposed DimDe Router Experimental Results Conclusion. Outline.
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A Novel Dimensionally-Decomposed Router for On-ChipCommunication in 3D Architectures Author: J. Kim, C. Nicopoulos (Dept. of CSE, PSU) Speaker: Po-Shan Huang ISCA’07
Outline • Introduction • Current 3D NoC Architecture • Proposed DimDe Router • Experimental Results • Conclusion
Outline • Introduction • Current 3D NoC Architecture • Proposed DimDe Router • Experimental Results • Conclusion
Introduction • a new 3D NoC router architecture • Partially-connected Dimensionally-Decomposed (DimDe) Router • Characteristics • True 3D crossbar structure • Varying the number of vertical connections • Segmented vertical links in the partially-connected crossbar • Hierarchical arbitration scheme for inter-strata transfers • Similar to the Row-Column (RoCo) Decoupled Router
Outline • Introduction • Current 3D NoC Architecture • Proposed DimDe Router • Experimental Results • Conclusion
3D Symmetric NoC Architecture • 7x7 crossbar
3D NoC-Bus Hybrid Architecture • 6x6 crossbar
Outline • Introduction • Current 3D NoC Architecture • Proposed DimDe Router • Experimental Results • Conclusion
Outline • Introduction • Current 3D NoC Architecture • Proposed DimDe Router • Experimental Results • Conclusion
Simulation Platform • Server workloads • TPC-C • SAP • Memory traces • SPLASH • Simulator • Simics • The baseline configuration • Solaris 9 Operating system • eight UltraSPARC III cores
Simulation Platform (cont.) • Energy Model • Register-Transfer Level (RTL) Verilog • Synopsys Design Compiler • TSMC 90 nm standard cell library
Impact of the Number of Vertical Bundles on Performance • Two vertical links instead of more
Simulation Result • Latency and throughput improvements of over the other 3D architectures Latency Throughput
Conclusion • Energy reduction within Slight performance overhead • Small crossbar and simple design reduce about 26% in terms of EDP • Within 5% overhead