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- Qin, Tian, et al.
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Performance Analysis of Nanoelectromechanical Relay-Based Field-Programmable Gate Arrays
- 2018
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Ingår i: IEEE Access. - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). - 2169-3536. ; 6, s. 15997-16009
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The energy consumption of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) is dominated by leakage currents and dynamic energy associated with programmable interconnect. An FPGA built entirely from nanoelectromechanical (NEM) relays can effectively eliminate leakage energy losses, reduce the interconnect dynamic energy, operate at temperatures >225 °C and tolerate radiation doses in excess of 100 Mrad, while hybrid FPGAs comprising both complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) transistors and NEM relays (NEM-CMOS) have the potential to realize improvements in performance and energy efficiency. Large-scale integration of NEM relays, however, poses a significant engineering challenge due to the presence of moving parts. We discuss the design of FPGAs utilizing NEM relays based on a heterogeneous 3-D integration scheme, and carry out a scaling study to quantify key metrics related to performance and energy efficiency in both NEM-only and NEM-CMOS FPGAs. We show how the integration scheme has a profound effect on these metrics by changing the length of global wires. The scaling regime beyond which net performance and energy benefits is seen in NEM-CMOS over a baseline 90 nm CMOS technology is defined by an effective relay beam length of 0.5 μm , on-resistance of 200 kΩ , and a via pitch of 0.4 μm , all achievable with existing process technology. For ultra-low energy applications that are not performance critical, NEM-only FPGAs can provide close to 15× improvement in energy efficiency.
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- Weldezion, Awet Yemane, et al.
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Zero-load Predictive Model for Performance Analysis in Deflection Routing NoCs
- 2015
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Ingår i: Microprocessors and microsystems. - Elsevier B.V. : Elsevier BV. - 0141-9331 .- 1872-9436. ; 39:8, s. 634-647
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We study a static model for 2-D and 3-D networks that accurately represents the average distance travelled by packets under deflection routing, which is a specific form of adaptive routing. The model captures static properties of the network topology and the spatial distribution of traffic, but does not take into account traffic loading and congestion. Even though this static model cannot accurately predict packet latency under high load, we contend that it is a perfect predictor of deflection routing networks’ relative performance under any load condition below saturation, and thus always correctly predicts the optimum network configuration. This is verified through cycle-accurate simulations of congested and uncongested networks with fully adaptive, deflection routing for regular traffic patterns such as uniform random, localised, bursty, and others, as well as irregular patterns in both regular and irregular networks. As the networks with minimal average distance perform best even under high traffic load, the average distance model establishes a robust relation between a static network property, average distance, and network performance under load, providing new insight into network behaviour and an opportunity to identify the optimal network configuration without time-consuming simulations.
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