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Thesis Contents
Abstract†
Chapter 1: Introduction†
- Technology scaling
- Conventional interconnect paradigms and problems
- NoC interconnect, advantages, and disadvantages
- 3D-ICs and 3D-NoC
- Reliability issues
- Briefly describe the works done so far to address reliability in 3D-NoC
- Thesis Contribution
- Thesis Organization
Chapter 2: Network-on-Chip overview†
- NoC main components and parameters
- 3D-NoC special features (different components and parameters from 2D-NoC)
3D-NoC advantages and challenges
Chapter 3: Fault analysis†
- Fault models
- Fault consequences
- Failure causes
- Failures classification (locality and time)
- Detection mechanisms (codes, BIST)
Chapter 4: Related work†
- Detection mechanisms
- Routing algorithms
- router architectures
Chapter 5: Router Architecture†
- Router block diagram
- Pipeline stages
- Bypass-Link-on-Demand
- Random Access Buffer (RAB)
- Deadlock recovery
- Fault tolerance
- Traffic-Prediction-Unit
- Block diagram
- Prediction Table
- Fault Control Module
Chapter 6: Fault-tolerant routing algorithms†
- Look-Ahead-XYZ (LAXYZ)
- Look-Ahead-Fault-Tolerant (LAFT)
- Hybrid-Look-Ahead-Fault-Tolerant (HLAFT)
Chapter 7: Physical implementation†
- No considerable details available for the time being
Chapter 8: Evaluation†
- Methodology
- BLoD evaluation
- RAB evaluation
- RAB+TPU evaluation
- Router latency evaluation
- Router Throughput evaluation
Chapter 9: Conclusion & Future work†
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