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ACDC: An accuracy- and congestion-aware dynamic traffic control method for networks-on-chip

ACDC: An accuracy- and congestion-aware dynamic traffic control method for networks-on-chip
ACDC: An accuracy- and congestion-aware dynamic traffic control method for networks-on-chip

Many applications exhibit error forgiving features. For these applications, approximate computing provides the opportunity of accelerating the execution time or reducing power consumption, by mitigating computation effort to get an approximate result. Among the components on a chip, network-on-chip (NoC) contributes a large portion to system power and performance. In this paper, we exploit the opportunity of aggressively reducing network congestion and latency by selectively dropping data. Essentially, the importance of the dropped data is measured based on a quality model. An optimization problem is formulated to minimize the network congestion with constraint of the result quality. A lightweight online algorithm is proposed to solve this problem. Experiments show that on average, our proposed method can reduce the execution time by as much as 12.87% and energy consumption by 12.42% under strict quality requirement, speed up execution by 19.59% and reduce energy consumption by 21.20% under relaxed requirement, compared to a recent work on approximate computing approach for NoCs.

approximate computing, many-core system, on-chip network
1558-1101
630-633
IEEE
Xiao, Siyuan
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Wang, Xiaohang
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Palesi, Maurizio
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Singh, Amit Kumar
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Mak, Terrence
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Xiao, Siyuan
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Wang, Xiaohang
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Palesi, Maurizio
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Singh, Amit Kumar
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Mak, Terrence
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Xiao, Siyuan, Wang, Xiaohang, Palesi, Maurizio, Singh, Amit Kumar and Mak, Terrence (2019) ACDC: An accuracy- and congestion-aware dynamic traffic control method for networks-on-chip. In 2019 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE). IEEE. pp. 630-633 . (doi:10.23919/DATE.2019.8715189).

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Abstract

Many applications exhibit error forgiving features. For these applications, approximate computing provides the opportunity of accelerating the execution time or reducing power consumption, by mitigating computation effort to get an approximate result. Among the components on a chip, network-on-chip (NoC) contributes a large portion to system power and performance. In this paper, we exploit the opportunity of aggressively reducing network congestion and latency by selectively dropping data. Essentially, the importance of the dropped data is measured based on a quality model. An optimization problem is formulated to minimize the network congestion with constraint of the result quality. A lightweight online algorithm is proposed to solve this problem. Experiments show that on average, our proposed method can reduce the execution time by as much as 12.87% and energy consumption by 12.42% under strict quality requirement, speed up execution by 19.59% and reduce energy consumption by 21.20% under relaxed requirement, compared to a recent work on approximate computing approach for NoCs.

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e-pub ahead of print date: March 2019
Published date: 16 May 2019
Venue - Dates: 22nd Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, DATE 2019, , Florence, Italy, 2019-03-25 - 2019-03-29
Keywords: approximate computing, many-core system, on-chip network

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Local EPrints ID: 431805
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/431805
ISSN: 1558-1101
PURE UUID: d27ff9c9-8f82-462b-9c46-10369a8fad4a

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Date deposited: 18 Jun 2019 16:30
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 12:28

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Author: Siyuan Xiao
Author: Xiaohang Wang
Author: Maurizio Palesi
Author: Amit Kumar Singh
Author: Terrence Mak

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