Institute for Communication Technologies and Embedded Systems

System-level Reliability Exploration Framework for Heterogeneous MPSoC

Authors:
Wang, Z. ,  Chen, C. ,  Sharma, P. ,  Chattopadhyay, A.
Book Title:
ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI)
Publisher:
ACM
Series:
GLSVLSI '14
Pages:
p.p. 9--14
Address:
Houston, USA
Date:
May. 2014
ISBN:
978-1-45032-816-6
DOI:
10.1145/2591513.2591519
Language:
English
Abstract:
Power density of digital circuits increased at alarming rate for deep sub-micron CMOS technology, turning reliability into a serious design concern. On the other hand, ever-growing task complexity with strict performance budget forced designers to adopt complex, heterogeneous MPSoCs as the implementation choice. Several commercial system-level design platforms exist currently for design, exploration and implementation of MPSoC. In this paper, we propose a system-level reliability exploration framework by extending a commercial system-level design flow. Using this framework, a heterogeneous MPSoC is designed which can accept a custom mapping algorithm based on the MPSoC topology before the actual task deployment. The dynamic reliability-aware task management is able to consider the desired reliability constraints of tasks as well as reliability levels of the system components. We report our experimental findings using state-of-the-art benchmark applications.
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